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  <date date="2019-02-13" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Murray-Darling Basin Plan</name>
      <text id="201902130771f5ee90be420190000608">
        <heading>Murray-Darling Basin Plan</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4622" kind="question">
        <name>Dr CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2019-02-13">
            <name>Murray-Darling Basin Plan</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-02-13T14:33:50" />
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          <by role="member" id="4622">Dr CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:33):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Environment and Water. Did the minister obtain a personal guarantee from the New South Wales minister that New South Wales would deliver any environmental water to South Australia in 2019?</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201902130771f5ee90be420190000611">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The Minister for Child Protection is called to order and the Minister for Primary Industries is warned for a second and final time. Minister for Environment and Water.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4837" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Black</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Environment and Water</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-02-13T14:34:09" />
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          <by role="member" id="4837">The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS (Black—Minister for Environment and Water) (14:34):</by>  Thank you, Mr Speaker. My negotiations with all the states, including personal guarantees, are not something that I will go into in detail here, but I know that New South Wales, Victoria—</text>
        <text id="201902130771f5ee90be420190000613">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4839">Mr Hughes interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201902130771f5ee90be420190000614">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Giles is warned for the second time.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4837" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201902130771f5ee90be420190000615">
          <by role="member" id="4837">The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS:</by>  —the ACT and South Australia are all working towards contributions towards that 62 gigalitres, real water—one gigalitre: 62 gigalitres. We are on a pathway—</text>
        <text id="201902130771f5ee90be420190000616">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4837" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201902130771f5ee90be420190000617">
          <by role="member" id="4837">The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS:</by>  The nonsense, the noise, it's unbelievable. By midyear, we have a clear pathway towards that 62.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. A. Koutsantonis</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201902130771f5ee90be420190000618">
          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. Koutsantonis:</by>  When?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4837" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201902130771f5ee90be420190000619">
          <by role="member" id="4837">The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS:</by>  By midyear.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201902130771f5ee90be420190000620">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for West Torrens shouted 'when' three times during that answer, and he is warned for a second and final time. The member for Newland. I will come back to the deputy leader.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4847">The Hon. S.K. Knoll interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The Minister for Transport is warned. The member for Newland has been patiently waiting. I will come back to the deputy leader.</text>
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