Question Time

SA Health

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:19): My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing:

1. With regard to the public servant task force established to respond to the ICAC report into SA Health, will the minister advise who the task force reports to—the minister or the Premier?

2. When is the task force projected to report and who will that report be handed to?

3. Will the minister commit to making that report public?

4. Is the minister now aware of the membership of the committee and, in particular, who specifically from SA Health (the minister's own agency) has been appointed to the task force?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:19): The task force will be appointed by the Premier because it is a cross-agency task force. It will be chaired by his chief executive. As I indicated on Tuesday, the Chief Executive of the Department for Health and Wellbeing will be a member of that task force.

In terms of time frames, I don't have a time frame in mind. I don't know whether the Premier does but the key point here is that their first task is to work with other stakeholders in the health portfolio and in government to develop a detailed response. The response earlier this week was initial and high level. The detailed response, as I have indicated to the house, I would hope would be publicly available by Christmas.