Royal Adelaide Hospital

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:19): Can the minister confirm that the Modbury and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital redevelopments will occur in 2016 at the very time that the government is completing the new Royal Adelaide Hospital and expecting The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Modbury and other hospitals to take up the slack for the transition?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:19): Yes, but I do not expect there to be an enormous amount of disruption. In terms of the Flinders Medical Centre, it is basically a new build, and we do not expect there to be an enormous amount of disruption or interference with the ability of those two hospitals to take extra patients if that is what we need to do.