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  <date date="2011-02-23" />
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Royal Adelaide Hospital</name>
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        <heading>ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1807" kind="question">
        <name>Dr McFETRIDGE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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          <question date="2011-02-23">
            <name>ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL</name>
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        <startTime time="2011-02-23T14:42:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="1807">Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (14:42):</by>  My question is to the Treasurer. Will the government release all of the details of the public sector comparator for the new Royal Adelaide Hospital project—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">An honourable member interjecting:</event>
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        <name>Dr McFETRIDGE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102230b8dea4e43074c5580000457">
          <by role="member" id="1807">Dr McFETRIDGE:</by>  Listen, listen. I will start again. Will the government release all of the details of the public sector comparator for the new Royal Adelaide Hospital project and, in particular, the capital, operational and risk costs of the project if delivered by public sector comparator compared to the total cost if delivered by the private sector under a PPP? Do you get it? Are you listening?</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102230b8dea4e43074c5580000459">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1807">
        <name>Dr McFETRIDGE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102230b8dea4e43074c5580000460">
          <by role="member" id="1807">Dr McFETRIDGE:</by>  I think he is much smarter than the rest of you.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201102230b8dea4e43074c5580000461">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER: </by> Treasurer, I hope you understood that question.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="627" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Playford</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Employment</name>
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        <startTime time="2011-02-23T14:43:00" />
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          <timeStamp time="2011-02-23T14:43:00" />
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Treasurer, Minister for Employment, Training and Further Education) (14:43):</by>  I am not quite sure, but if he has to repeat it then members opposite might not get their 10 questions in. The government is confident that it made the right decision in choosing the PPP way of delivering this project and delivering value for South Australians. As to the nub of what we will release, or otherwise, I will get some advice and I am happy to come back to the parliament on whether that information can or cannot be released and made public. The government has a position of being as transparent and open as possible in this project. We have nothing to hide.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="627">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  I can tell you, Madam Speaker, that when the new Royal Adelaide Hospital is built to the acclaim of South Australia because it has a world-class hospital, a first-class hospital, where people can be treated, the opposition will read the words that they have used in criticising this project and weep, because South Australians will be holding them to account for their opposition to this great proposal which will deliver world-class, first-class health facilities to the people of South Australia. I know they do not like that. I know that they have difficulty with the fact that ordinary South Australians might be able to access first-class, world quality health care.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER: </by> Order! The member for Mawson.</text>
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