Ambulance Ramping

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (15:07): A further supplementary: given the worst ramping in history, will the minister suspend the KordaMentha administration's search for $460 million of cuts to essential hospitals to ensure that the government's focus is on health care and not on budget cuts and, if not, why not?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:07): Labor, the party that built a hospital for more than $640 million more than the budget, the party that led the Royal Adelaide Hospital out of the last financial year with a $300 million budget overrun—they are telling us that we should ignore financial issues. This government takes very seriously our responsibility to have quality, safe and sustainable health services, and that's what we will continue to do.