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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>New Women's and Children's Hospital</name>
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        <heading>New Women's and Children's Hospital</heading>
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        <name>Mrs HURN</name>
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        <electorate id="">Schubert</electorate>
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            <name>New Women's and Children's Hospital</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6887" referenceid="a698e5b3774342a1b25d8bbef65f519c" uid="dd7682cf00c542268d0ec5d8caed7a0a">Mrs HURN (Schubert) (14:47):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. Is the new Women's and Children's Hospital subject to similar cost pressures faced by the Mount Barker hospital? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.</text>
        <text id="202510295c312960d2734ae1b0000473">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>Mrs HURN</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6887" referenceid="a698e5b3774342a1b25d8bbef65f519c" uid="b7ce505bd42543c080d0123cfb5d5c46">Mrs HURN:</by>  According to the government, there has been no change to the project cost of $3.2 billion since the 2023-24 budget, despite other health infrastructure projects blowing out due to an 'uplift in construction, trade and material costs happening here and around the world'.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. C.J. PICTON</name>
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        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc" uid="b0c5e8a69c114ecb8e134007c01fddf7">The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:47):</by>  I know the member just sort of gets given the list and reads them all out, but if she goes back—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. C.J. PICTON</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc" uid="0dd3bb3a559d46bc81c1f3bf4ac731a3">The Hon. C.J. PICTON:</by>  —10 minutes ago, I gave a very detailed explanation to the exact point that she has just asked me in the question, so I refer to 10 minutes ago in question time.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Before I call the member for Stuart: Minister for Human Services, I was having trouble hearing the answer then.</text>
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