SA Pathology

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:18): Supplementary: how can the Treasurer claim that SA Pathology's performance should be measured against other states when other states do not have to deal with EPLIS?

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (15:18): I am sure the Minister for Health has—

The Hon. I.K. Hunter: You've been thrown under the bus on this one.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: I don't throw my colleagues under the bus. We march side by side collegiately.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: That's the Collingwood side by side. We march side by side collegiately in relation to these issues. The minister has a number of IT disasters inherited from the former Labor government, one of which has been identified by the honourable member. EPAS is another. I think there is another E something that is a disaster too, from my brief period as shadow minister. There were so many E disasters in Health that I have lost track of them, but I remember EPAS and EPLIS, and there was another E.

The Hon. T.J. Stephens: ESMI.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: What was it?

The Hon. T.J. Stephens: ESMI.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: ESMI. That's right, it was ESMI. There were three E disasters at varying stages under the former Labor government. That will be part of the challenge for the Minister for Health, and indeed SA Pathology. Any of these IT disasters that the former Labor government had left there—we can't just, over the next four years, leave the disaster there. Part of the solution, over the next four years, is to try to clean up the mess of the former Labor administration in relation to these E IT disasters.