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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>SA Pathology</name>
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      <text id="201809182b063531025f4bf6b0000508">
        <heading>SA Pathology</heading>
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        <name>Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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            <name>SA Pathology</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:38):</by>  Supplementary question to the minister—</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order! The member for Kaurna, supplementary.</text>
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        <name>Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON:</by>  If that is the case, why have the staff who are here today told the Leader of the Opposition and I that they haven't been consulted with, that they haven't heard from the minister about your $105 million cuts to SA Pathology? </text>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order! Minister.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4342" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Stuart</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Energy and Mining</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4342">The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart—Minister for Energy and Mining) (14:39):</by>  Just to be really careful, I will check with the Minister for Health, but let me say—</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4342">The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN:</by>  —I think the reason that members from SA Pathology may not have been consulted on this issue yet is that the review hasn't started yet, but let me get that confirmed. Let me get that confirmed from the Minister for Health and I will bring an answer back to the house, but I'm sure that will be the answer.</text>
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