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  <date date="2011-02-08" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Royal Adelaide Hospital</name>
      <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000755">
        <heading>ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="1807" kind="question">
        <name>Dr McFETRIDGE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2011-02-08">
            <name>ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2011-02-08T15:28:00" />
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000756">
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          <by role="member" id="1807">Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (15:28):</by>  As a supplementary question, how will it be the most scrutinised project if it does not go to the Public Works Committee?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Playford</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Employment</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2011-02-08">
            <name>ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2011-02-08T15:28:00" />
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          <timeStamp time="2011-02-08T15:28:00" />
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Treasurer, Minister for Employment, Training and Further Education) (15:28):</by>  Because it is the most looked at project. It has been talked about. You would have to chop down a forest with the amount of print that there is on this, with the amount—</text>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000758">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000759">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000760">
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  Look at them! Madam Speaker—</text>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000761">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000762">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000763">
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  Madam Speaker—</text>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000764">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000765">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order! There will now be order. Let the minister finish his answer.</text>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000766">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="74">Mr Marshall interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000767">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order, the member for Norwood! The Treasurer.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000768">
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  Madam Speaker, they are like the gibbons at the zoo. You just listen to them, they remind me of the gibbons at the zoo.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3124">
        <name>Mr PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000769">
          <by role="member" id="3124">Mr PISONI:</by>  Point of order.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000770">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER: </by> Point of order.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3124">
        <name>Mr PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000771">
          <by role="member" id="3124">Mr PISONI:</by>  It is unparliamentary for members of parliament—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000772">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER: </by> Yes, I will uphold that point of order. Sit down! Treasurer, can you finish your response?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000773">
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  The fact is this is the most—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3124">
        <name>Mr PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000774">
          <by role="member" id="3124">Mr PISONI:</by>  I ask that it be withdrawn. The Treasurer has—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000775">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER: </by> Treasurer, can you withdraw your remark?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000776">
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  Madam Speaker, if gibbons are insulted, I withdraw. The simple fact is that this is the most—</text>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000777">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="9">The Hon. P.F. Conlon interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000778">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order, the Minister for Transport!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000779">
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  —scrutinised project in the state's history. It has been talked about, it has been endless—</text>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000780">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000781">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102085f15c5e2394a41f1a0000782">
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  Endless questions have been asked of both the Minister for Health and the former treasurer on this issue. I am sorry if the member for Morphett has fallen asleep for the last four or five years, or however long the project has been talked about. We have been talking about this project and it has been the subject of questions in this place for many, many years.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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