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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Enterprise Patient Administration System</name>
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        <heading>Enterprise Patient Administration System</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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            <name>Enterprise Patient Administration System</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:26):</by>  Can the Treasurer confirm that SA Health is running EPAS on contingencies in the 2015-16 budget?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">West Torrens</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Finance</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for State Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy</name>
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            <name>Minister for Small Business</name>
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          <question date="2015-07-02">
            <name>Enterprise Patient Administration System</name>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Treasurer, Minister for Finance, Minister for State Development, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Minister for Small Business) (14:26):</by>  Yes, I can confirm that Department of Treasury and Finance and Health are working together collaboratively to make sure that the rolling out of EPAS is done in line with the Auditor-General's recommendations. I can say that we do have an excellent working relationship with Health.</text>
        <text id="201507022731c38614c4497c80000527">The great thing about being in a cabinet as collegiate as ours is that we work together; we talk to each other. When the Attorney says to me, 'This is the advice I have received from the Chief Justice,' I accept that advice as being accurate. When the police minister says to me, 'This is the advice I have from the police commissioner,' I accept that advice as being accurate. Same as the health minister—when he says to me—</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Point of order.</text>
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        <name>Mr GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4343">Mr GARDNER:</by>  The question was very specific: is the EPAS line running out of contingencies—98.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  I think the Treasurer is saying, if I am not mistaken, that he accepts, without demur, the advice of the Minister for Health.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  I do, sir, because—</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Do I read the Treasurer correctly?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  We have an excellent working relationship with the Minister for Health. What we don't do—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  What we don't do, Mr Speaker, is, for example, give information that may not be accurate to each other, or attempt to set each other up.</text>
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        <name>Mr PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3124">Mr PISONI:</by>  Point of order: the question was about contingencies, and the minister was clearly—</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  I think the member for Unley is being over-sensitive, and if he pursues that point of order, he will be joining the member for Newland. Leader.</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>  Was that the answer?</text>
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        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Yes.</text>
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