Health Review

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:16): Further supplementary: given the minister's confirmation in respect of the current agreement, is he prepared to indicate that there will be a binding provision in the next enterprise bargaining agreement that no nurse will lose their job in the term of the next agreement?

Ms Bedford: He just said that.

Ms CHAPMAN: He did not, and you know it.

Ms Bedford interjecting:

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (15:16): Whether it's in the EB or not—

The SPEAKER: The member for Florey, disappointed that she didn't get to ask her question, is called to order!

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: When the day comes that nurses need the Liberal Party in this state to fight for them, that would be a pretty sad day. That would be a pretty bleak day because we all know what the nurses federation said at the last state election about the Liberal Party's health policy. She made some rather—

The SPEAKER: Point of order!

Members interjecting:

Mr GARDNER: Standing order 98 would prevent the minister from behaving like this.

The SPEAKER: The Minister for Health is warned for debating the question and for not being seated upon my granting the member for Morialta the right to make his point of order. Has the minister finished?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: No, there's more.

The SPEAKER: But wait, there's more!

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: Of course, with regard to the enterprise bargaining, indeed, we will be beginning our enterprise bargaining discussion process. I'm not going to be foreshadowing in this place what will be in the enterprise bargaining, how the negotiations will proceed and what we will be seeking. Certainly, that's not the way we do things. If the deputy leader had ever been in government, she might know that. Nonetheless, I have certainly made quite clear on many occasions that no nurse is going to be sacked as a result of the changes we're making in Transforming Health.