Honourable Speaker, I want to thank the minister for Health for bringing this ministerial statement. It has been waited on for a long time by the affected families and I want to...
Before I begin, I want to acknowledge the presence in the Chamber today of Faith Tkalac.
Minister, I'd like to ask a few more questions about the reportable deaths review. There's been a suggestion made that in addition to his own direct misconduct, Dr Renshaw also intimidated or ordered others to falsify records and suppress matters from the coroner. Are you looking at any historic cases that don't involve Dr Renshaw, recognising what was said earlier about some of the case selection being randomised? Will there be any review of cases that don't involve Dr Renshaw?
Attorney-General, earlier this year the House of Assembly passed the Justice and Related Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. Coroner Cooper warned, and the Greens raised this as an issue in the second reading, that the enactment of that bill would result in a doubling of coronial investigations, but you disputed his assessment. Clearly, however, you wouldn't disagree, I'd expect, that it must result in some increased workload. Are you able to listen to my question?
Minister, I have here the final report of the independent review, reportable deaths, and death reporting processes in Tasmanian public hospitals, which we'll talk a bit more about in health. But this relates to the actions of the coroner's office.
Just back to the final report of the independent review into reportable deaths processes in Tasmanian hospitals, particularly at the LGH, the review talked about cases of deaths that were returned by the Coroner to the LGH with advice that they were not reported with.