Repatriation General Hospital

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:10): Can the minister guarantee to the house that this site will not be sold?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:10): I can guarantee that it will not be sold without engagement with veterans. Of course, if someone came to us with a proposal in the line of what I have been talking about, that is, with regard to it having some ongoing health involvement and that involved the sale of the site, that is something we would consider, but I have made repeatedly clear that we will not be doing anything to the site without engaging with our veterans' community. The aspects of the site which are important to veterans and which have historic importance to South Australia, like the chapel, like the memorial garden, I have given an unequivocal guarantee that those things will be protected.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Before the leader asks his next question, I give the member for Davenport his maiden call to order, I warn the member for Adelaide for the second and final time, and I warn the Treasurer, who may think that when the Minister for Health is on his feet I can't hear him. He is wrong. The leader.