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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Repatriation General Hospital</name>
      <text id="201502261be108d9fbcf467f80000397">
        <heading>Repatriation General Hospital</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="question">
        <name>Mr MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2015-02-26">
            <name>Repatriation General Hospital</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-02-26T14:03:01" />
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:03):</by>  Considering this is not the first time that issues of gagging have been raised with this minister—</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201502261be108d9fbcf467f80000399">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Can the leader ask a question? If he wants to make an explanation, he can seek leave.</text>
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        <name>Mr MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL:</by>  Thank you. Has the minister undertaken any action to communicate with employees within the department that they are free to attend the rally tomorrow?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="627" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Playford</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
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            <name>Minister for Health Industries</name>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:03):</by>  I made my position quite clear that I welcome employees of SA Health getting involved in the debate. This is about engagement from the very beginning. The opposition has been peddling this idea that somehow people have been gagged or prevented from participating in the debate. Provide me with one example. Give me an example. Give me a name of an executive—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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        <text id="201502261be108d9fbcf467f80000403">
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  Give me a name of an executive who at any time has attempted to prevent an employee of SA Health from participating in this debate—</text>
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        <name>An honourable member</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201502261be108d9fbcf467f80000404">
          <by role="office">An honourable member:</by>  Rod Hook.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201502261be108d9fbcf467f80000405">
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  No, Rod Hook doesn't work for the Department for Health. Give me a solid example and I would be more than happy to investigate. This has been touted around for several weeks now and I am yet to see any evidence of this happening at all.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201502261be108d9fbcf467f80000406">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Before the leader asks his next question, I call to order the members for Flinders, Kavel, Heysen, Hartley, deputy leader, Mount Gambier, MacKillop and Morialta. I warn the member for Hartley for the first time and I warn the member for Morialta for the first and the second time. Leader.</text>
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