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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2019-12-12" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>SA Health</name>
      <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000680">
        <heading>SA Health</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4841" kind="question">
        <name>Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2019-12-12">
            <name>SA Health</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2019-12-12T14:51:13" />
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000681">
          <timeStamp time="2019-12-12T14:51:13" />
          <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:51):</by>  My question is to the Premier. Premier, is it correct that in your first year of office complaints and reports to ICAC about SA Health increased by 25 per cent? Does that demonstrate the need for an ICAC investigation to be funded by your government?</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>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Premier</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2019-12-12">
            <name>SA Health</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2019-12-12T14:51:33" />
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000682">
          <timeStamp time="2019-12-12T14:51:33" />
          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:51):</by>  I don't have the detailed breakdown on the number of referrals or complaints that have been made to the ICAC and in which—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="interjection">
        <name>Mr Malinauskas</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000683">
          <by role="member" id="5084">Mr Malinauskas:</by>  You were talking about it before.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000684">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Leader!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="interjection">
        <name>Mr Malinauskas</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000685">
          <by role="member" id="5084">Mr Malinauskas:</by>  You were talking about it before.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000686">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order! I will make the leader angry if I kick him out, so I ask him to cease interjecting. The Premier has the call.</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="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000687">
          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  I can only assume that the Leader of the Opposition is getting a little bit delirious.</text>
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000688">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000689">
          <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="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000690">
          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  He seems to think that he is the Premier. I think he would like to be, but I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon because he is answering questions from his own shadow minister. I don't know whether they could get together in the bar or in the corridor—</text>
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000691">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <page num="9176" />
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000692">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3120" kind="interjection">
        <name>Mr Pederick</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000693">
          <by role="member" id="3120">Mr Pederick:</by>  In the dream factory.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000694">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Hammond is warned.</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="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000695">
          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  It's difficult to know what's going on over on that side at the moment. The previous leader of the Labor Party of course had a bit more backbone. He could stand up to people in his own party.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4842">
        <name>The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000696">
          <by role="member" id="4842">The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN:</by>  Point of order, sir.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000697">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  For debate. I uphold the point of order. I ask the Premier to come back to the substance of the question, which was about ICAC and certain numbers allegedly in the report.</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="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000698">
          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  The question that was being asked was about what number of complaints had come and in which year, to which the Leader of the Opposition provided the answer to the shadow minister, so I am not quite sure why they are not talking to each other. We all get along well on our side. I don't know why they don't just get together and answer the questions between the two of them.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201912121f2bb28f656e43e990000699">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Has the Premier concluded his answer? The Premier has concluded his answer. Because of that, we will move to the member for Kaurna and then to the member for Mount Gambier, who has been patiently waiting. The member for Kaurna.</text>
      </talker>
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