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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>SA Health, ICAC Report</name>
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        <heading>SA Health, ICAC Report</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>SA Health, ICAC Report</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5414">The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS (14:42):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding the ICAC report into SA Health. My question to the minister is the following: who provided advice to the minister that he was not able to read the ICAC report into SA Health on Friday, and will the minister also explain how it is possible that the government announced a response to the ICAC report into SA Health without having read the report and particularly without the Premier reading the report?</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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            <name>SA Health, ICAC Report</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:42):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her questions, because I regard them as two separate matters. In relation to the first matter, I would refer the honourable member to the ministerial statement by the Attorney-General. In relation to the second matter, which is the—</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>  Sorry, but I don't know if the opposition wants to hear the answer. The answer that I would like to offer to the second question of the Hon. Irene Pnevmatikos is that the government's initial high-level response was informed by a range of information already in the public domain. The ICAC commissioner made public statements on 18 October. I had meetings with the ICAC commissioner following that statement, and the ICAC commissioner's overview of the issues to be dealt with in the report on SA Health was conveyed to SA Health in a letter in late October.</text>
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