Deputy Premier Kim Hames's week from hell continues as scrutiny continues on personal expenses Deputy Premier Kim Hames has admitted more discrepancies in allowances claimed. THE week from hell continues for West Australian Health Minister Kim Hames, with scrutiny of his personal expenses and professional performance continuing to rise. After PerthNow revealed on Sunday that he wrongly claimed accommodation allowances, he lost his tourism portfolio. Hames admitted he wrongly claimed an MP's allowance for staying at his home in Perth several times totalling $1013, and has today conceded he had discovered more discrepancies. Opinion: Premier should strip Hames of health portfolio too But Dr Hames, who also remains the state's deputy premier, said he did not think the public would care about more bookkeeping errors. "What we found is that there are some more where I have got it wrong but there are lots of ... nights where I could have claimed but didn't," Dr Hames said. Now, I'm not going to worry about those, because frankly I don't think, well, I don't care about them and I'm sure the public didn't care. Dr Hames was also asked to respond to senior medical figures calling for more beds to be included in the construction of Perth's new multi-billion dollar children's hospital, and on the performance of existing major hospitals. Data from National Health Performance Authority data showing time spent by patients in emergency departments was critical of WA's performance. Two of the three major metropolitan hospitals nationwide which had declined by at least five percentage points were in in WA, and none of the state's 12 peer grouped hospitals improved by five or more percentage points. Dr Hames said the government was already looking at increasing the capacity of the new children's hospital. "We have now agreed not that we will build an additional floor, but get from the builders the cost of building an additional floor to the ward section of the hospital," Dr Hames said.