Royal Adelaide Hospital

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (14:38): Thank you, Mr Speaker. My question is to the Minister for Health. Can the minister tell the house how he intends to manage the project risks outlined today by the Auditor-General on page 14 of his report with respect to the potential for project delays, cost pressures, failure to meet the PPP contractual requirements in incurring financial exposure, inadequate management of claims it made against the state, industrial disputes, inadequate delivery of health enterprise ICT systems, uncoordinated relocation of the new RAH site adversely affecting the safe transition of services and patients, insufficient training of staff, inadequate delivery of the intended benefits and outcomes, inadequate delivery of a sustainable model of care and the misalignment with changes to the state's healthcare policy and strategic direction.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:39): The report has just been tabled. I am not in a position to be able to go into much detail regarding what is in the report, but I will emphasise a couple of things. First, the report is dated up to only 30 June and a lot of progress has been made on the NRAH project between 30 June and now, so many items that the Auditor-General has identified have been or are being dealt with.

The second thing I will say is that, by their nature, auditor-general's reports highlight issues, and it would be a very unusual auditor-general's report indeed that looks at anything in government and says, 'There is nothing to see here, everything is great, I have nothing to comment on.' So it is not at all unusual for an auditor-general's report to have a long list of recommendations and risks that they have dealt with, and this report would be no different.