House of Assembly Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2) 52 2 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Ministerial Statement Ministerial Statement Health Department Accounts HEALTH DEPARTMENT ACCOUNTS The Hon. J.D. HILL House of Assembly Kaurna Minister for Health and Ageing Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Minister for the Arts The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts) (16:32): I seek leave to make a ministerial statement. Leave granted. The Hon. J.D. HILL House of Assembly The Hon. J.D. HILL: In question time today, the member for Davenport asked me a question about the amount of unreconciled accounts, and he questioned the figure of $60 million and compared it to a figure given by the Deputy Auditor-General in a review of the audit by the Economic and Finance Committee, I think. I said today that I thought the figure of $90 million was the original one I gave, and then I gave a subsequent figure of $60 million, which I thought was the figure we were then at, and then the Deputy Auditor-General used a figure of $90 million. I have since checked the record and I inadvertently and mistakenly used the figure of $90 million myself. On 24 November last year, I then corrected the record and said it was a $60 million figure. So, I created the error and the Deputy Auditor-General may well have picked up on that error, because my advisers tell me that it was $60 million, and that they had written to the Deputy Auditor-General to advise him that that was the figure that we were relying on. So, the advice I have is it was $60 million. I made a mistake when I said it was $90 million. If there is any further evidence or information that pertains to this, I will obviously bring it to the house.