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senate vote 2016-09-13#4
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Bills — National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016, National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016; Reference to Committee- National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 and another - Refer to Committee
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senate vote 2016-09-13#4
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<p class="speaker">Murray Watt</p><p>I, and also on behalf of Senator Di Natale, move:</p><p class="italic">That the provisions of the National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 and the National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016 be referred to the Community Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 11 October 2016.</p>- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2016-09-13.104.2) -
- > *That the provisions of the [National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016](http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/r5700) and the [National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016](http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/r5699) be referred to the [Community Affairs Legislation Committee](http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs) for inquiry and report by 11 October 2016.*
- ### What does this mean?
- In other words, the majority wanted the Community Affairs Legislation Committee to look more closely at what the two national cancer bills proposed to do and seek submissions from the public about them.
- The motion was introduced by Queensland Labor Senator [Murray Watt](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/queensland/murray_watt) also on behalf of Victorian Greens Senator [Richard Di Natale](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/victoria/richard_di_natale).
- Earlier, ACT Labor Senator [had explained](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/divisions/senate/2016-09-13/2) why the Labor Party wanted the bills to be referred to the Committee.
- Read more about the bills and what they do in the [bills digest](http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1617a/17bd014).
<p class="speaker">James McGrath</p><p>I seek leave to make a short statement.</p> <p class="speaker">Stephen Parry</p><p>Leave is granted for one minute.</p> <p class="speaker">James McGrath</p><p>The National Cancer Screening Register legislation needs to be in place to allow for the development of the National Cancer Screening Register, specifically to authorise the register operator to collect and use personal information from the eight separate state and territory cervical registers, the DHS bowel register and the Medicare enrolment data, to allow for the NCSR to operate. The legislation also authorises the migration of identified data from existing state and territory cervical registers.</p><p>If the legislation enactment is delayed beyond the end of September, there will need to be consideration of contingencies to support the commencement of the renewed National Cervical Screening Program, including whether it is feasible to delay the MBS items in order to provide adequate time to complete the NCSR build, given that most state registers are not able to support the renewed program. If the NCSR cannot commence operations for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program by March 2017, there will be additional costs to government to continue the current inefficient arrangements with DHS.</p> <p class="speaker">Stephen Parry</p><p>The question is that the motion moved by Senator Watt be agreed to.</p>
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