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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Health Department</name>
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        <heading>HEALTH DEPARTMENT</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1813" kind="question">
        <name>Mrs REDMOND</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Heysen</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>HEALTH DEPARTMENT</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1813">Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:13): </by> My question is again to the Minister for Health. In relation to the reconciliation of the department of health's accounts, what has been the cost of engaging PKF, who brought in up to 10 full-time consultants for a period of some months to reconcile those health department accounts?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="535" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.D. HILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Ageing</name>
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            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
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            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
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            <name>HEALTH DEPARTMENT</name>
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          <by role="member" id="535">The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts) (14:13): </by> I am happy to get advice on that for the member. I am also happy to get advice in answer to her first question: I meant to say that at the time. I am not sure what the figure was at the beginning of the reconciliation process, but the point is that it is just really making sure that things are properly reconciled, which is an accounting process to get—</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="535">
        <name>The Hon. J.D. HILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="535">The Hon. J.D. HILL:</by>  This is a process of making sure that—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="65">Mr Williams interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order, member for MacKillop!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="535">
        <name>The Hon. J.D. HILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="535">The Hon. J.D. HILL: </by> All I will say, Madam Speaker, is that I am happy to get advice for the member in relation those matters.</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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