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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2019-02-12" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Hospital Beds</name>
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        <heading>Hospital Beds</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>Hospital Beds</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-02-12T14:45:23" />
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:45):</by>  Final supplementary arising from the answer: isn't it the case, minister, that you will not reopen these beds because you need to save $41 million this financial year to comply with KordaMentha's directions?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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          <question date="2019-02-12">
            <name>Hospital Beds</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-02-12T14:45:40" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:45):</by>  I'd encourage the Leader of the Opposition not to spread scurrilous rumours.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20190212862aba9393594f14b0000220">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! Order! I can't hear.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Minister! Minister!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  If the Treasurer finds out that I can save $41 million by keeping one ward closed, I think he would be on me like a flash.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  I couldn't hear the minister's answer to your own question, Leader of the Opposition.</text>
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