Hospitals, Hotel Services

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:53): A further supplementary: is this minister still committed to the reduction in funding for hotel services, which includes the catering and cleaning at the Adelaide metropolitan public hospitals, of $1 million this year and $4½ million each year thereafter?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:54): I'm not aware of what the honourable member refers to. I presume that what she is trying to highlight is that the former Labor government used hotel services in a significant number of our hospitals. Now they want to turn around and suggest that using contractors for hotel services is somehow privatisation of the public health service. She has certainly stepped into the breach of the Hon. Kyam Maher in the sense that she is continuing to distort their record compared with ours.