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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Mount Pleasant District Hospital</name>
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        <heading>Mount Pleasant District Hospital</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1805" kind="question">
        <name>Mr GOLDSWORTHY</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kavel</electorate>
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            <name>Mount Pleasant District Hospital</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1805">Mr GOLDSWORTHY (Kavel) (14:59):</by>  Thank you, Mr Speaker. I know they have all been waiting for this.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  I have been.</text>
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        <name>Mr GOLDSWORTHY</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1805">Mr GOLDSWORTHY:</by>  My question is to the Minister for Health. Can the minister advise when I might expect a reply to a letter I wrote to him on 11 November last year concerning aged-care bed allocations at the Mount Pleasant District Hospital? Follow-ups were made on 3 March and 4 April this year.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Yes, I think we have got the idea.</text>
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        <name>Mr GOLDSWORTHY</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1805">Mr GOLDSWORTHY:</by>  Still no response received to date, Mr Speaker.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="627" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Playford</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health</name>
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            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
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            <name>Minister for Health Industries</name>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (15:00):</by>  Well, the member for Kavel has got me there. We always try to answer correspondence from members of parliament as quickly as we can.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="543">Ms Bedford interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Florey is warned.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  I don't have the information on me as to the tardiness in the reply, but I shall take it up immediately with my office and find out where that correspondence is at.</text>
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