Rebecca White has a lot of nerve to even mention school nurses, given that it was Labor – and in particular, Michelle O’Byrne – that cut them from our schools in the first place.
Under the Labor-Green Government, Michelle O’Byrne cut school nurses and let thousands of kids miss out on proper health screening checks.
There were a lot of disgraceful decisions that the Labor-Green Government made, but cutting school nurses was by far one of the worst.
The Liberals made a commitment to bring back school nurses and we have delivered on that commitment in Government.
We now have around 30 school nurses operating in over 100 schools around the State.
What Ms White is proposing today is simply shuffling nurses between departments.
Labor cut school nurses before and given they have no idea how to manage a budget, they will cut them again if given half a chance.
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