Royal Adelaide Hospital

Mr TARZIA (Hartley) (14:43): To the Minister for Health: will the government install a hybrid suite in the new Royal Adelaide Hospital and, if so, when?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:43): The hybrid—

An honourable member interjecting:

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: Well, hybrid suites were not really a big thing when the planning on the Royal Adelaide Hospital was done many years ago. They have really come into their own in the last two or three years. Certainly the widespread usage—and there is no doubt that there are enormous benefits to be had from a hybrid suite. We are very fortunate because of the planning and the way the new Royal Adelaide Hospital has been built that we will have the flexibility we need to make sure that the hospital is able to easily adapt to new technologies as they present themselves.

I do hope that this question from the member for Hartley is a break from the opposition we have had from the Liberal Party in this state to the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, ever since it was first mooted. In fact, it is pleasing to get a question implicit in which is the idea that a new hospital is a good idea and that the old hospital needed to be upgraded.

Mr GARDNER: Point of order, Mr Speaker.

The SPEAKER: This is going to be a bogus point of order, so I advise the member for Morialta not to make it.