Health Services

Mr TARZIA (Hartley) (14:46): My question is to the Minister for Health. Is it still the government's position to establish a dedicated eye hospital under Transforming Health and, if not, where will the eye services that it originally planned to deliver at Modbury Hospital now be provided?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:46): We are working through that with the ophthalmologists. We are very close, I think, to coming to a resolution that all parties will be satisfied with. I had a meeting with the ophthalmologists only just recently. We are doing a business case around a particular proposal, but I'm very confident we will have this issue sorted. The ophthalmologists are very keen to have a specialist eye area—precinct or hospital. We are working with it. I think it would be in everyone's interests for something like that to proceed. We really just need to make sure that the numbers stack up.