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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2019-03-21" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>House of Assembly</house>
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  <startPage num="5161" />
  <endPage num="5232" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <text id="20190321688636504e664cbea0001026">
      <heading>Answers to Questions</heading>
    </text>
    <subject>
      <name>SA Water</name>
      <text id="20190321688636504e664cbea0001027">
        <inserted>
          <heading>SA Water</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4622" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Dr CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2019-03-21">
            <name>SA Water</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20190321688636504e664cbea0001028">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4622">Dr CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Leader of the Opposition)</by> (13 February 2019).  </inserted>
        </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>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2019-03-21">
            <name>SA Water</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20190321688636504e664cbea0001029">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4837">The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS (Black—Minister for Environment and Water):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20190321688636504e664cbea0001030">
          <inserted>SA Water has a longstanding practice of trading excess water allocations that are not required for the needs of SA Water customers through the general water trading market. These water holdings help to provide water security for SA Water customers.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20190321688636504e664cbea0001031">
          <inserted>The information regarding traded volumes of water allocations is commercial-in-confidence and subject to water sensitive information rules established under the federal <term>Water Act 2007</term>.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20190321688636504e664cbea0001032">
          <inserted>It should be noted that SA Water is operating consistently with activity that occurred under the previous government.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
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