Health Consumers Alliance

Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:46): Supplementary: if, as the minister says, this is only something the government is investigating, why have you cut every single dollar to that organisation in your budget?

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart—Minister for Energy and Mining) (14:46): The government has put nearly $800 million of additional—

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The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN: The government has put—

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The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN: The government has put nearly $800 million of additional money into the health budget over the forward estimates. We understand what we need to do to get the health system working again as well as it can on behalf of all South Australians. We will undertake—

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The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN: We will—

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The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN: We will undertake these investigations very thoroughly, very genuinely, and we will take the decisions that come from those investigations when it's necessary to do that. I can't tell you anything else.