COUNTRY HEALTH CARE PLAN

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:04): I have a supplementary question. How many empty rooms, wards and corridors are there in public hospitals in Adelaide, including Modbury Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Women's and Children's Hospital?

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts) (15:04): I hardly see how this is a supplementary question. We all know that various sections of different hospitals are closed down and not funded. That is true. I am saying that in a number of these hospitals there are not empty rooms but, rather, empty hospitals. There are no patients in them whatsoever for about half the year—not one patient. In all the hospitals which the deputy leader named there are plenty of patients.