McGowan, Dr C.

Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (15:06): My question is to the Premier. Is the Chief Executive of SA Health, Dr Chris McGowan, contracted with the Premier, subject to any performance management?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Any minister can answer a question, members on my left.

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart—Minister for Energy and Mining) (15:07): The member who asks this question was, for a period before the last election, a minister himself.

Mr Duluk: Not a good one.

The SPEAKER: The member for Waite can leave for the remainder of question time.

The honourable member for Waite having withdrawn from the chamber:

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN: I know that we have made lot of improvements in the last 18 months, but I suspect that in the former minister's time, as is the case now in the Marshall Liberal government, there were performance agreements for all CEs. I think, if I've got it right, the member asked about performance evaluation or performance—

Mr Picton: Management.

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN: —management, thank you. That is certainly part of the program that the Marshall Liberal government has. In fact, we as ministers have, not very long ago, just gone through that process with our CEs. I am sure that my experience as Minister for Energy and Mining is no different from that of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing in principle in this area, and that is that we have very clear performance agreements and we have very clear KPIs. We do have performance monitoring and management on a very regular process as well.

While I am not familiar with the specific details of the performance criteria or the KPIs that are set for the CE of the Department for Health and Wellbeing, I am very confident to share with the member opposite that performance management is certainly ongoing.