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  <date date="2022-09-06T11:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
    <subject>
      <name>SA Water</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>SA Water</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Mr PATTERSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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          <question date="2022-09-06T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>SA Water</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5384" referenceid="facf38f4c95b4f27b86257b48e3f699a">Mr PATTERSON (Morphett)</by> ((23 June 2022).).  (Estimates Committee A)</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4622" referenceid="aa45c8bc1b33484c8becbf1c17397e74" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.E. CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Defence and Space Industries</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Climate, Environment and Water</name>
          </portfolio>
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          <question date="2022-09-06T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>SA Water</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4622" referenceid="aa45c8bc1b33484c8becbf1c17397e74">The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Premier, Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Minister for Defence and Space Industries, Minister for Climate, Environment and Water):</by>  I have been advised that for SA Water:</inserted>
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          <inserted>Since 22 March 2022, the following executive appointments were made. </inserted>
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                <cell>Role Title</cell>
                <cell>Classification</cell>
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                <cell>Chief Information Officer</cell>
                <cell>N/A</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>General Manager, Customer and Commercial</cell>
                <cell>N/A</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>General Manager, Strategy, Engagement, and Innovation</cell>
                <cell>N/A</cell>
              </row>
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          </inserted>
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          <inserted>Section 17 of the South Australian Water Corporation Act 1994 allows the Corporation to appoint the employees it thinks necessary or desirable and on terms and conditions fixed by the Corporation. Given this, SA Water uses its own industrial framework for employing staff and no positions at SA Water fall within the SA executive service.</inserted>
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          <inserted>SA Water's Executive structure comprises its chief executive, its chief financial officer, chief information officer and five general managers. </inserted>
        </text>
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          <inserted>As a public corporation, SA Water operates in a commercial environment and competes with other private and public sector entities within South Australia and interstate. As such, SA Water considers the details of executive remuneration by specific role function to be commercially sensitive. </inserted>
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          <inserted>Salary bands of staff are included in SA Water's annual report.</inserted>
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