Women's and Children's Hospital

The Hon. C. BONAROS (15:00): Can the minister advise how many of those tens of millions of dollars were spent on consultancy fees as opposed to actual upgrades or services?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:00): The honourable member is raising the issue of consultancies. It has been raised in the public domain before. The answer I received was that the claims, I think, of $10 million on consultants was not in relation to recurrent services, it was in relation to the $50 million capital sustainment program. I am advised that there is certainly no basis for that assertion.