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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>SA Pathology</name>
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      <text id="20190402aff6ee70ff7b4c4a90000062">
        <heading>SA Pathology</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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          <question date="2019-04-02">
            <name>SA Pathology</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:28):</by>  Supplementary: how does the minister think staff and their families might feel to know that they will be notified in 'weeks ahead' when the minister talked about it on the radio this morning?</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="2019-04-02">
            <name>SA Pathology</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:28):</by>  Let me pose the question another way: how does the Leader of the Opposition think that the SA Pathology staff would have felt for the four years of the former Labor government—</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="20190402aff6ee70ff7b4c4a90000066">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! I cannot hear the minister.</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>:  Order! Allow the minister to answer and then you can ask a supplementary.</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>  So the former Labor government released the Ernst and Young report—</text>
        <text id="20190402aff6ee70ff7b4c4a90000070">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20190402aff6ee70ff7b4c4a90000071">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order! You can continue if you wish, minister, or sit down. I can't hear the minister. It is your question, Leader of the Opposition. I would like to hear his answer to your supplementary.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20190402aff6ee70ff7b4c4a90000072">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  This is yet another example of Labor saying—</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3122" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. I.K. Hunter</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. Hunter:</by>  You are the one who was on the radio this morning.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20190402aff6ee70ff7b4c4a90000074">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Can we just have a moment so I can listen to the 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>  Labor released a report in December 2014 which had an estimate of the FTE impact of 334.</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>:  Order! Sit down, minister. We are going to the next question. Supplementary, the Hon. Ms Franks.</text>
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