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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Hospital Beds</name>
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        <heading>Hospital Beds</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4841" kind="question">
        <name>Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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            <name>Hospital Beds</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:37):</by>  Supplementary: does that mean that the Premier is withdrawing his previous comment that clinicians will be the ones who will have the power to reopen these beds?</text>
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      <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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          <question date="2019-10-16">
            <name>Hospital Beds</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-10-16T14:37:47" />
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:37):</by>  I refer the honourable member to my previous answer. Obviously, SA Health seek the input from clinicians here in South Australia. Flexing has occurred for a long period of time.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</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>  It's like it’s a revelation to those opposite. They were in for 16 years.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members 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>  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <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>  This guy here was the former health minister. This guy was advising the health minister—and what a mess it was, what an absolute mess! I tell you what happens: SA Health take advice from the people who know. I tell you two people they will not be taking advice from, and that is the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Kaurna.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  I think the Premier has finished his answer. He has finished his answer. Member for Kaurna and then the member for MacKillop.</text>
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