Queen Elizabeth Hospital

The Hon. S.G. WADE (14:34): Supplementary question: can the minister assure the house then, that the respiratory ward at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital will not transfer to the Royal Adelaide Hospital?

The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse) (14:34): The government has made a stated policy commitment that the Premier announced back in June. We are getting on with the business of implementing that. That is evidenced probably principally through the budget allocation of an additional quarter of a billion—that is a 'b', Mr President—dollars to The QEH, because we take seriously public health services in the western suburbs.