Ambulance Ramping

Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:22): My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. Were there any shortages of ambulances in the southern suburbs last night?

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart—Minister for Energy and Mining) (14:23): I don't know how many times we have to go through this. The advice to me from the office of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing, which no doubt comes to him—some of it, at least—from the South Australian Ambulance Service and the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, is that there were no issues whatsoever that caused any patients any concern associated with ambulance ramping or hospital-based issues.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The minister has the call. Member for Kaurna, you have been warned. Minister.

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN: I am not sure what else it is that the opposition is seeking to try to—

Mr Brown interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Playford is warned.

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN: —discover or make up or guess. I have provided, in the plainest and most straightforward way that I possibly could, to this house the information on this topic that has been provided to me by the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. For the Leader of the Opposition to say that what he wants is the truth, and therefore suggest that what I am providing is not the truth, is something that I find offensive.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Member for Kaurna, do you have another question?