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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2022-11-15T11:00:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>House of Assembly</house>
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  <startPage num="2227" />
  <endPage num="2295" />
  <dateModified time="2023-07-06T08:44:37+09:30" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <text id="20221115ce4ae6c1fbbd4e4e80001061">
      <heading>Answers to Questions</heading>
    </text>
    <subject>
      <name>Kangaroo Island Ferry</name>
      <text id="20221115ce4ae6c1fbbd4e4e80001062">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Kangaroo Island Ferry</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="6897" referenceid="281302ba05f944788bbdc4aa3396e0c9" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Ms PRATT</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Frome</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2022-11-15T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>Kangaroo Island Ferry</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20221115ce4ae6c1fbbd4e4e80001063">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="6897" referenceid="281302ba05f944788bbdc4aa3396e0c9">Ms PRATT (Frome)</by> (5 May 2022).  </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.J. PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2022-11-15T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>Kangaroo Island Ferry</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20221115ce4ae6c1fbbd4e4e80001064">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc">The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20221115ce4ae6c1fbbd4e4e80001065">
          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network was aware that the ferry service to Kangaroo Island was reducing, and all required bookings on the ferry service for this period had been made well in advance so that vaccination staff could travel to and from the Island as required.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20221115ce4ae6c1fbbd4e4e80001066">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Kangaroo Island Health Service (KIHS) currently does not offer dialysis due to a number of barriers, including low patient demands for dialysis. The former liberal government also failed to address the ongoing workforce shortages. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20221115ce4ae6c1fbbd4e4e80001067">
          <inserted>Home dialysis is an option for those who are eligible, and those residents who are required to travel off the island to receive renal dialysis work closely with the local SeaLink office to ensure ferry bookings are secured.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
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