Once again Labor leader Bec White is offering Tasmanians false hope with her promise today to open a Devonport Integrated Care Centre.
Tasmanians won't forget that Labor first announced this in 2007 - but like the many promises they made to the Mersey community it was broken.
While they’ve supposedly allocated $10 million to partially build a centre – they failed to allocate any recurrent money to actually run the centre, they failed to say which services would be based in the centre, whether it would duplicate existing services at the Devonport GP Superclinic, and they failed to say where it would actually be built.
Labor’s own 2012 costings of the project put it at $18.5 million and similar centres being built under the Hodgman Liberal Government now are in vicinity of $20 million, so there is no way they could build one for $10 million.
This is pie in the sky with no real costings and they are adding insult to the many injuries they have done to the Mersey region over their turbulent years bumbling on health.
Ms White also failed to own up to the fact that this half baked promise would not be built until 2021.
Tasmanians won’t be fooled again. Labor promised this before and failed.
This is another example of Ms White’s inexperience and reminds the community that you can’t trust Labor with money.