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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2018-05-31" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Hospitals, Winter Demand</name>
      <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000204">
        <heading>Hospitals, Winter Demand</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Leader of the Opposition</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2018-05-31">
            <name>Hospitals, Winter Demand</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2018-05-31T15:08:00" />
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000205">
          <timeStamp time="2018-05-31T15:08:00" />
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (15:08):</by>  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?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000206">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  I am allowing that supplementary. </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. Maher</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000207">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  Why do you need a website? You just need action.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <page num="313" />
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000208">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  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.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Health and Wellbeing</electorate>
        <startTime time="2018-05-31T15:08:36" />
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000209">
          <timeStamp time="2018-05-31T15:08:36" />
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:08):</by> The honourable member seems to get excited about plans.</text>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000210">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000211">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Minister, please continue.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3125" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. R.P. Wortley</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000212">
          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. Wortley:</by>  He's action man, is he? Action man.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000213">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  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.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000214">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  Point of order, Mr President.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000215">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Sit down, minister. I will listen to the point of order.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000216">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  The question was very specific about naming the website where this plan appears, not about EPAS or anything else.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000217">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  I am allowing some latitude by the minister for context, and we will see how it goes. Minister.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. Maher</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000218">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  Table the plan.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000219">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  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—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. Maher</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000220">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  I don't have a plan.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000221">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Minister, just continue.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000222">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  —in the last two years—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. Maher</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000223">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  Good plan.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180531833b951e21ff4e9ca0000224">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  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.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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