KordaMentha

Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:35): My question is to the Premier. Can the Premier guarantee there will be no further blowouts to the KordaMentha contract?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:35): There is a new contract that is going to be negotiated. We don't know who is going to win it yet. It's fair to say that we are going to have to spend some money to fix the mess that we were left by the previous government, but I am not going to be lectured by the guy who stuffed up his interview today, one minute saying that we have the best health system in the country—a brilliant new hospital—and then saying we have real problems in the hospital. I am not going to be lectured by him. The reality is—

Mr PICTON: Point of order, sir.

The SPEAKER: Premier, please be seated, there is a point of order.

Mr PICTON: The Premier is debating.

The SPEAKER: Point of order for debate. Is the Premier finished?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: No, sir.

The SPEAKER: Could you please return to the substance of the question.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: The question was about the amount of money that we are going to have to spend—

The SPEAKER: Blowouts.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —with consultants.

The SPEAKER: Yes.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! I will listen to the answer.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: I will tell you about blowouts.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: I will tell you about blowouts. The former government said the new hospital would cost $1.8 billion. They missed it by that much—a $600 million blowout. Let me tell you, sir, how much they spent on consultants to devise this wonderful product: $40 million—$40 million to leave us with a dud system that the shadow minister himself today had to condemn on radio.