<!--The Official Report of Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia are covered by parliamentary privilege. Republication by others is not afforded the same protection and may result in exposure to legal liability if the material is defamatory. You may copy and make use of excerpts of proceedings where (1) you attribute the Parliament as the source, (2) you assume the risk of liability if the manner of your use is defamatory, (3) you do not use the material for the purpose of advertising, satire or ridicule, or to misrepresent members of Parliament, and (4) your use of the extracts is fair, accurate and not misleading. Copyright in the Official Report of Parliamentary Debates is held by the Attorney-General of South Australia.-->
<hansard id="" tocId="" xml:lang="EN-AU" schemaVersion="1.0" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2007/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="hansard_1_0.xsd">
  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-05-13" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
  <venue></venue>
  <reviewStage>published</reviewStage>
  <startPage num="705" />
  <endPage num="761" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Pathology Services</name>
      <text id="202005133fb95c188ddf450fa0000026">
        <heading>Pathology Services</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2020-05-13">
            <name>Pathology Services</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2020-05-13T14:19:07" />
        <text id="202005133fb95c188ddf450fa0000027">
          <timeStamp time="2020-05-13T14:19:07" />
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:19):</by>  A supplementary arising from the question: does the minister have any recollection of discussing any matter with representatives from Clinpath or Sonic Healthcare at a Liberal Party event?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <page num="706" />
        <text id="202005133fb95c188ddf450fa0000028">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Just before you answer that, Minister for Health and Wellbeing, that was very much like your original question, the honourable Leader of the Opposition. You are actually supposed to ask a different question, if you are going to ask a supplementary.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="202005133fb95c188ddf450fa0000029">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  A question arising from the answer, where the minister referred to whether he had had discussions about the privatisation of pathology services. Has the minister had discussions with anybody about the privatisation of pathology services at a Liberal Party event?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <startTime time="2020-05-13T14:19:49" />
        <text id="202005133fb95c188ddf450fa0000030">
          <timeStamp time="2020-05-13T14:19:49" />
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:19):</by>  I have answered that question. I refer the honourable member to my previous answer.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
</hansard>