Modbury Hospital

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (14:44): My question is again to the Minister for Health. Will the Modbury Hospital emergency department face reduced service levels under Transforming Health, given that SA Health's submission to the Development Assessment Commission on The Queen Elizabeth Hospital states that one of the key reconfiguration drives in Transforming Health is to reduce service levels or decommission entirely emergency access points?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:44): I don't know what the document is that the member for Morphett is referring to and I would be very cautious about the selective quotations of the member for Morphett from various documents, but I can give an absolute guarantee that the emergency department at Modbury Hospital will continue as long as I am health minister. As long as the Labor Party still sits on this side of the house, the Modbury emergency department will always continue.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: Listen to the opposition and their crocodile tears. They were the ones who privatised the Modbury Hospital. They are the privatisers of the Modbury Hospital, so don't come in here with your crocodile tears and your bleating. It was the Liberal Party in this state which privatised the Modbury Hospital and it was the Labor government which brought it back into the public system, and it is something about which we are incredibly proud.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: In the middle of that melee I will choose a repeat offender, the member for Newland, to warn, because chances are he started it.