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  <date date="2015-03-18" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Health Review</name>
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        <heading>Health Review</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="2015-03-18">
            <name>Health Review</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:08):</by>  Does the minister know what the symptoms of a life-threatening stroke are?</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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          <portfolio id="">
            <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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          <question date="2015-03-18">
            <name>Health Review</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) (14:08):</by>  Fortunately, I'm not in the ambulances diagnosing strokes. That is not a job the health minister has. I'm barely qualified—</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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          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  I'm barely qualified to cut my own toenails as far as health care is concerned. I have occasionally applied a bandaid to one of the children, but fortunately it's not up to the health minister in this state to diagnose strokes.</text>
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        <name>Mr Marshall</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2015031870dd69e418ec437cb0000268">
          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr Marshall:</by>  You don't know.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  No, I don't know—I don't need to know. That's not my job. We employ 30,000 people to work in our health system: ambulance officers, nurses, doctors—that is their job. I wouldn't pretend to interfere; I wouldn't be so arrogant as to say that I had diagnostic knowledge and that this is something that I would be able to have any particular expertise in.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2015031870dd69e418ec437cb0000270">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Before the leader asks his next question I call to order the members for Schubert, Hammond, Elder and the Minister for Agriculture, and I warn a first time the deputy leader, the member for Hartley, the leader and the member for Heysen. Leader.</text>
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