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  <date date="2020-03-24" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Coronavirus</name>
      <text id="2020032402472374530146daa0000141">
        <heading>Coronavirus</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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            <name>Coronavirus</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-03-24T14:53:52" />
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:53):</by>  A supplementary arising from the original answer: just for clarification, is the minister advising the chamber that the advice from his clinicians is that we will not run out of reagent and we have enough stocks to meet our current projected needs?</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="2020-03-24">
            <name>Coronavirus</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-03-24T14:54:12" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:54):</by>  What I have said I will state again: we will have challenges across a range of medical supplies. We continue to seek fresh supplies. We continue to review the accessibility of tests. We also look at doing things better. SA Pathology yet again is showing its creativity, innovation and efficiency because they are, as I understand it, looking at different ways of managing the testing process so they can actually reduce the amount of reagent that is needed to deliver each test.</text>
        <text id="2020032402472374530146daa0000144">So with all due respect, I am not going to rely on back of the envelope calculations by Labor politicians. I am going to let the clinicians do what they do best: delivering high-quality clinical services. I am going to listen to the clinicians, not the Labor politicians.</text>
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