Ardrossan Community Hospital

Mr ELLIS (Narungga) (15:04): My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Health. Can the minister please update the people of Narungga on the funding to the Ardrossan Community Hospital? With your leave, and that of the house, I will explain further.

Leave granted.

Mr ELLIS: Four years ago, the highly valued community hospital secured four years of funding. Will that funded be renewed?

The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta—Minister for Education) (15:04): I thank the member for Narungga for this question. It's of course of a piece with his devotion to his electorate and particularly I know his interest in its health services, as I have detailed to the house previously. Even when I was in the electorate of Narungga with the member early last year on what was an extensive visit to a large number of the schools, training facilities and early childhood facilities in his electorate as Minister for Education, he took every opportunity to remind me about all the local health services at every town and the opportunities that could be there for enhancing his community's health services, so I know this is an important topic for him.

In relation to the detail of the arrangement that he's asked about, I don't have that detail here. I will seek further information from the Minister for Health, who is of course in the other place, and I will bring back an answer for this chamber.