HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUDGET

Mr HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite) (14:55): Supplementary question, if I may, again to the Minister for Health. Given his answer to that question, could he tell the house whether his budget for the current financial year since 1 July, with the first quarter now complete, is forecast to be underspent or overspent and by how much?

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts) (14:55): I will get some further advice. I can't answer that off the top of my head, but if I can just continue the answer. I apologise to the deputy leader for calling him a clown, if he takes offence at that. I was trying to give a proper answer to the house because the task that is facing health is a complex one. I was trying to make the point that every time we try to take funding away from any organisation, any group or any part of the health system—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.D. HILL: —we get a rabble of noise coming from those opposite in opposition to whatever the job is that we are trying to do.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr Williams interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition will leave the chamber for 15 minutes.

Mr Williams: I look forward to it, Madam Speaker, putting up with that sort of nonsense. Not one sound.

The SPEAKER: Order! You will leave the chamber or you will be named.

Mr Williams: You're a disgrace.

The SPEAKER: Order!

The honourable member for MacKillop having withdrawn from the chamber:

The Hon. J.D. HILL: Just for the record, I was making the point that every time I announce a cut in any funding level we get noise from opposite around the committee. I wasn't suggesting he was making a peep today, but he misunderstood what I was saying, but that wouldn't be the first time the honourable deputy leader misunderstood. I will get an answer for the honourable member.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!