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  <date date="2019-10-16" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Hospital Beds</name>
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        <heading>Hospital Beds</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4841" kind="question">
        <name>Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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          <question date="2019-10-16">
            <name>Hospital Beds</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-10-16T14:36:33" />
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          <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:36):</by>  My question is to the Premier.</text>
        <text id="2019101625a4943954bd43d690000583">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5376">Ms Stinson interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2019101625a4943954bd43d690000584">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Member for Badcoe, you are warned for a second time. I am trying to listen to your colleague the member for Kaurna. He deserves the respect of this house when asking a question. Member for Kaurna.</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>  Thank you very much for your protection, sir. My question is to the Premier. Following the Premier today telling the house, 'We will leave these decisions up to clinicians,' does it mean that clinicians will have the power to order beds to be opened without approval from health bureaucrats?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Premier</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-10-16T14:37:10" />
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:37):</by>  The reality is that these decisions are not made at the ministerial level. They are made by people within SA Health and the clinicians.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2019101625a4943954bd43d690000588">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2019101625a4943954bd43d690000589">
          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  They are made—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5387" kind="interjection">
        <name>Mr Brown</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2019101625a4943954bd43d690000590">
          <by role="member" id="5387">Mr Brown:</by>  Who's in charge?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2019101625a4943954bd43d690000591">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Playford is warned.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  They are made by the people who are best in the position to make that decision, and we stand by that.</text>
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