Power Outages, Hospitals

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:14): Was the Flinders Medical Centre backup generator, the subject of your earlier ministerial statement, the same unit that failed in 2009?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:14): I'm checking that. I am certainly not aware of there having been previous issues but, as I said in my ministerial statement, the generator was subject to regular maintenance. It's checked on a monthly basis, and it was—

An honourable member interjecting:

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: Well, I would have to. I would have to check. In any case, the simple fact is that the generator was subject to regular maintenance and in fact had been tested as recently as Monday. My department had taken the precaution. Given the weather forecast on Monday that there was the possibility of power blackouts, and that this might affect the Flinders Medical Centre, we took the added precaution of making sure that that generator was in working order on Monday.