LOTS OF BULLSHIT FROM MINISTERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE HOUSE

Former National Health Minister Bill English expressed horror in 1997 at the claims and said it had to be cleared up quickly, 

Judy Keall: Why has this matter taken so long to resolve? Hon. ANNETTE KING: The issue has taken so long to resolve mainly because of the previous Government. In July 1997, when Bill English was the Minister of Health, he said that the Government could not be seen to be hiding behind a wall of legal complexities. He did nothing for 2 years. When he became the Minister of Finance, he decided on 23 February 1999 that the claims would be litigated. He was strong on words and weak on action. The money does not go half the way to healing the violence that occurred. They could have come with an apology," Mr English said I seek leave to table two documents. The first document is a press release dated 9 July 1997 from the Hon. Bill English when he was Minister of Health, in which he said: ``The Government cannot hide behind a wall of legal complexities.'' The second document is a health report to Wyatt Creech and Bill English on the Lake Alice Hospital claim. Sue Kedgley: Does the Minister agree that it is unacceptable that people can still be compulsorily treated with electroconvulsive therapy against their wishes; if so, what is she doing to stop that practice? Hon. ANNETTE KING: Electroconvulsive therapy is not administered without a person's consent.  BULLSHIT Annette it can and is forced on people without there consent was in lake Alice and also on me again in 1999 in Aucklands conally unit