Hospitals, Winter Demand

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (15:08): A supplementary arising from the original answer: can the minister inform the chamber of which website people would go to view his winter demand plan?

The PRESIDENT: I am allowing that supplementary.

The Hon. K.J. Maher: Why do you need a website? You just need action.

The PRESIDENT: Leader of the Opposition, let the minister answer your own question. Please don't answer your own question to yourself. Let the minister answer the question.

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:08): The honourable member seems to get excited about plans.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Minister, please continue.

The Hon. R.P. Wortley: He's action man, is he? Action man.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: I thank the honourable member for his compliment. I am indeed an action man. That is why I have stopped the rollout of EPAS at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, because it will improve the capacity and it will improve the resilience of that hospital to cope with winter—a winter that is made more risky by the former Labor government's decision to close the Repat hospital last November.

The Hon. K.J. MAHER: Point of order, Mr President.

The PRESIDENT: Sit down, minister. I will listen to the point of order.

The Hon. K.J. MAHER: The question was very specific about naming the website where this plan appears, not about EPAS or anything else.

The PRESIDENT: I am allowing some latitude by the minister for context, and we will see how it goes. Minister.

The Hon. K.J. Maher: Table the plan.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: It is interesting that the member is so keen for a website and so keen for a document with some highfalutin strategy. All I can say is that—

The Hon. K.J. Maher: I don't have a plan.

The PRESIDENT: Minister, just continue.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: —in the last two years—

The Hon. K.J. Maher: Good plan.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: The winter demand management plan that the Labor Party used as a working title, if you like, was used for the last four years. My understanding is that there were press releases in two years. If the opposition thinks it is so essential to have a press release or a website, perhaps they should have done that in two of the last four years.