Ambulance Employees

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (15:04): Supplementary: will the minister investigate claims by these ambulance employees that they have been denied natural justice in the investigations of their claims? They have alleged to me that witnesses have been interviewed—

The SPEAKER: No. No, look, the member for Morphett is doing it again.

An honourable member interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Yes, the opposition is right: the member for Morphett has been doing it all day. I think it is a genuine question but the sting of it entirely eluded his colleagues, who seemed to interpret it quite differently. Minister.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (15:04): If the member for Morphett has any evidence of any problems with the procedures that have been involved, by all means, provide them to me. I am more than happy to ask the Chief Executive of the Department for Health to have a look at them.

With regard to disciplinary procedures, they are well established in the public sector in South Australia and ample opportunity is given to people, if they feel they have not been given natural justice, to seek redress. I would say to the member for Morphett: if he is aware of employees of SA Health or the SA Ambulance Service who have been subject to some disciplinary proceeding and are not happy with either the process or the outcome, that they seek redress in the normal way.