Site Contamination, Clovelly Park and Mitchell Park

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:25): My question is to the Minister for Health. Did the minister refuse the request of the Minister for Environment to co-sign a report in relation to escalated air contamination at Clovelly Park?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:25): As far as I am aware, no request was made to me. What I can inform the house, though, is what health's involvement in this process has been. There is an MOU that exists between the Department of Health and the EPA which enables the EPA to get advice directly from public health, to access the expertise of public health, about these issues when it comes to matters of contamination, and that is exactly what has happened in that process.

The process with public health is that they communicate directly with the EPA and provide them with the expertise they require. That is not done through me, through my office or, indeed, through the chief executive of the department; it is done directly between public health and the EPA, and that has been the process in this matter.

Mr MARSHALL: Supplementary, sir.

The SPEAKER: Supplementary.