Mr DUTTON (Dickson—Minister for Health and Minister for Sport) (14:56): Madam Speaker, thank you very much. No amount of defence by the member will defend the record of the former minister for health. This is a shocking record. I want to talk about the GP Super Clinics Program— Ms Plibersek interjecting— Mr DUTTON: And she's arcing up already! Ms King: Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order under standing order 90. The minister has just impugned a member. The SPEAKER: For the benefit of the House, the minister may just withdraw. Mr DUTTON: I withdraw. My intention here is to provide a factual recount of the failings of the former minister. Let me start with the GP superclinic program. We heard the other day about the government's failure to provide one dollar of additional funding for chemotherapy patients beyond 31 December this year. They were saying to patients who needed chemotherapy services in this country that they would not get the extra service they needed beyond 31 December, but it does not stop there. Their problem is— Ms King: Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order going to relevance. The minister needs to be directly relevant to the question. The SPEAKER: On the point of order, I would have thought that it would need a little more elucidation than she gave it, but I would ask the minister to be directly relevant to the question. Mr DUTTON: This goes to the competence of the former government. It does not just apply to the NBN or pink batts or the running up of $373 billion of debt; this government presided over a $650 million superclinic program that was a complete and utter failure. Mr Burke: Madam Speaker, on a point of order: in 'Questions' at page 555 of Practice it says: … it is not in order for Ministers to be questioned on opposition policies, for which they are not responsible. It was a page of Practice oft quoted in the previous parliament, as you would remember, Madam Speaker. And, given that it was not within the question, it cannot be relevant and neither was it within his responsibilities. The SPEAKER: I would ask the minister to be relevant to the question. Mr DUTTON: So the superclinic the honourable member inquired about was announced, believe it or not, on 6 November 2007. You would have thought that for $5 million you would have got something by 2012 or 2013. But it is still not open. It is still not open for $5 million. During that time we have had two Labor Prime Ministers, three federal elections and two Labor health ministers, but not one patient has been seen by this clinic. I say to the Australian public: if you wonder why waiting lists have blown out, if you wonder why money has been wasted in health, it is because the Labor way was not to spend money on patients; it was to spend it on Labor bureaucracies. The problem was that Labor built up bureaucracies, taking money away from patients and not spending it on these clinics. We know that, out of the clinics promised as far back as 2007, 10 have not even yet been started. The incompetence of the Labor government knew no bounds. It did not just apply to their incompetence in child care or in broadband or in relation to the economy; the Labor Party were completely and utterly hopeless when it came to the Health portfolio. And there is a lot more yet to be detailed in relation to the former minister's failings.