Legislative Council Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1) 54 1 Parliament of South Australia Legislative Council published Question Time Hospital Beds Hospital Beds The Hon. K.J. MAHER Legislative Council Leader of the Opposition Hospital Beds The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:29): Supplementary arising from the answer: can the minister explain in detail the difference, as he has outlined in his answer, between beds closed on stand-by and beds being closed? The Hon. S.G. WADE Legislative Council Minister for Health and Wellbeing Hospital Beds The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:29): My memory is not always best at three years' distance, but I suspect that the quote the honourable member was referring to was a quote in relation to the closure of the Repat. That's a closure. When you have 200 beds—I think there are about 240 beds at the Repat—and when the former government sold it off for apartments, cafes and restaurants, I can assure you they were closed. What this government is doing is putting beds on stand-by, which was standard practice on weekends, standard practice at Christmas and New Year for years past and will be for years into the future, because you cannot run a hospital effectively at 100 per cent capacity. Part of the process of eliminating ramping is making sure that we have beds on stand-by when we need them.