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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Regional Hospital Helipads</name>
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        <heading>Regional Hospital Helipads</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6897" referenceid="281302ba05f944788bbdc4aa3396e0c9" uid="55ec389b7ea04573897a46939c064594" kind="question">
        <name>Ms PRATT</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Frome</electorate>
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          <question date="2025-11-26T00:00:00+10:30">
            <name>Regional Hospital Helipads</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6897" referenceid="281302ba05f944788bbdc4aa3396e0c9" uid="55ec389b7ea04573897a46939c064594">Ms PRATT (Frome) (14:51):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. Can the minister confirm for the house who owns, operates and is responsible for country hospital helipads? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.</text>
        <text id="202511269ef7d7e4424140d0a0000510">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>Ms PRATT</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Frome</electorate>
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          <by role="member" id="6897" referenceid="281302ba05f944788bbdc4aa3396e0c9" uid="7fa5430900a04dbe85ef83be7422ff6c">Ms PRATT:</by>  According to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority does not regulate the design or operation of hospital landing sites if they are not an integral element of an aerodrome certified under Part 139 of CASA Regulations 1998.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc" uid="b80dcc8c71c648c8973cd05f0fe70cc9" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.J. PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <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="b80dcc8c71c648c8973cd05f0fe70cc9">The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:51):</by>  I thank the member for Frome for her question. I will certainly check the specific CASA Regulations that she has referred to, but certainly my advice is that our helicopter operator—which at the moment is contracted to Babcock, which will change into the future to Toll—has to be compliant with CASA. We have to convince them in terms of each helipad, in terms of their ability to operate it. We have done that in terms of seven of the upgraded helipads that we have now opened, and we are working through the remaining six with Babcock and I will certainly check the specific regulations that the member referred to.</text>
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