HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUDGET

125 Mr HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite) (17 July 2012). With respect to 2012-13 Budget Paper 4, vol. 3, p. 15—

1. Why was there no expenditure recorded from the $44.3 million budgeted for Information and Communication Technology Projects in 2011-12 and why is there no budget provision in 2012-13?

2. What did this budget investment measure intend to achieve and why has it been scrapped?

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts): I am advised:

1. The $44.3 million referred to within 2012-13 Budget Paper 4, vol. 3, p.15 relates to a budget provision that is used to specifically fund a number of eHealth Information and Communication Technology Projects within SA Health. Following approval for the relevant ICT projects to commence, the budget provision is then transferred from this funding allocation pool to the appropriate project lines, where corresponding expenditure is also recorded.

There is no budget provision indicated for 2012-13 against this specific funding line because the budget has already been allocated to various ICT projects that will be undertaken by SA Health in 2012-13.

2. The budget measure has not been scrapped and the investment will still occur across several ICT projects in SA Health.