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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout</name>
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        <heading>COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout</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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          <question date="2021-03-16">
            <name>COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:52):</by>  My question is to the Premier. What steps have been taken to rectify bungles in the vaccine notification system resulting in doctors missing their vaccine appointments? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.</text>
        <text id="202103160ce3581528ed407e80000585">Leave granted.</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>  Dr David Pope, President of the Salaried Medical Officers Association and an emergency department doctor at the Lyell McEwin, revealed to Channel 7 News on the weekend that a text message bungle has resulted in doctors and nurses not receiving their vaccine appointment times and therefore missing their appointments. Dr Pope said, and I quote:</text>
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          <inserted>I was going to have a vaccination yesterday and I never received a text message from the system, [it is] greatly slowing down the vaccination rollout. I have to say that frontline staff are being let down.</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER:</by>  Sir, point of order: standing order 97. Prior to the leave being sought for the insertion of the explanation, the framing of the language of the question was unparliamentary and argumentative.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  There is no point of order. Does the minister seek the call?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4343" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morialta</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-03-16T14:53:24" />
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          <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta—Minister for Education) (14:53):</by>  I seek the call. I will take on notice the references in the question that seek information about a specific circumstance and bring back to the house what answer or response is provided by the Minister for Health, indeed, that is appropriate to share, notwithstanding that it may potentially be related to personal details so there may be a more general answer provided.</text>
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