Health Workforce

The Hon. C. BONAROS (15:23): Supplementary question: can the minister also, in seeking that advice, confirm whether perhaps staff who are brought in via any agencies are subject to those payments, which, for the record, on my understanding were not workers compensation payments but a penalty for the injury they had sustained during a given incident?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:23): You raise an interesting point, honourable member. I must admit the advice I get is likely to only deal with SA Health payments. It may well be that the person you dealt with was an agency nurse—I understand it was a nurse you are referring to—that that person was employed by an agency and they may have their own arrangements. But I will ask the department not only whether they have a payment scheme but whether they are aware of any other, shall we say, labour source that they use that has such a payment scheme.