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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-05-13" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Pathology Services</name>
      <text id="20200513470636d3546e42f590000055">
        <heading>Pathology Services</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2020-05-13">
            <name>Pathology Services</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-05-13T14:25:09" />
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          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:25):</by>  A supplementary arising from that extraordinary answer: is the minister aware—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20200513470636d3546e42f590000058">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! Just hang on, please. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition will be heard in silence. The minister will answer and be heard in silence.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20200513470636d3546e42f590000059">
          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN:</by>  Mr President, can you promise that the minister will answer?</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20200513470636d3546e42f590000060">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Deputy Leader of the Opposition, if you have a supplementary question, ask it; if not, sit down.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20200513470636d3546e42f590000061">
          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN:</by>  I appreciate your indulgence. Is the minister aware that the correspondence to which he is so disparaging refers to the pandemic, which he says was preoccupying his time, and why he cannot answer the question?</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. Wortley interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20200513470636d3546e42f590000063">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Wortley, what part of 'in silence' didn't you understand? The Minister for Health and Wellbeing.</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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        <startTime time="2020-05-13T14:25:56" />
        <text id="20200513470636d3546e42f590000064">
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:25):</by>  Guilty as charged, I have had some delayed correspondence in the last couple of months.</text>
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