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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-10-13" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Coronavirus, Travel</name>
      <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000139">
        <heading>Coronavirus, Travel</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="2020-10-13">
            <name>Coronavirus, Travel</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-10-13T14:36:28" />
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000140">
          <timeStamp time="2020-10-13T14:36:28" />
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:36):</by>  Supplementary arising from the original answer: to be very specific, minister, have you actually been inquisitive enough to ask your department whether this was an isolated incident and whether there were any other exemptions approved outside the exemptions committee?</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>
        <questions>
          <question date="2020-10-13">
            <name>Coronavirus, Travel</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2020-10-13T14:36:44" />
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000141">
          <timeStamp time="2020-10-13T14:36:44" />
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:36):</by>  The mountain of correspondence that I deal with as minister—</text>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000142">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000143">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order! It would be good to listen to the answer.</text>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000144">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000145">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order! The minister has hardly started his answer—</text>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000146">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000147">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:  Order!</by> The Leader of the Opposition is out of order. The minister has the call.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000148">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  As I was trying to say, Mr President, I receive a mountain of correspondence, and every piece of correspondence is an opportunity to make sure that my department is delivering on top quality service to the people of South Australia. Often—</text>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000149">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000150">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000151">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  Point of order: it was a very specific supplementary question—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000152">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Point of order. The minister will resume his seat.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000153">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  Sit down, Wadey. It was a very—</text>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000154">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000155">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order! I can't hear the point of order.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000156">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  It was a very specific supplementary, as we are endeavouring to be very specific in relation to answers given, and the answer has not even touched upon the question.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000157">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  There is no point of order but I am sure the minister is coming to the pertinence of the question.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000158">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  The pertinence of raising my correspondence is that every piece of correspondence is an opportunity to test the quality of service that we are providing to South Australians. I can assure you—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3122" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. I.K. Hunter</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000159">
          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. Hunter:</by>  When did you ask? When did you ask for that information?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000160">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Hunter is out of order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000161">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  —that my office, my team and myself are in constant discussions with our department on how we can do better. And let's be clear—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3122" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. I.K. Hunter</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000162">
          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. Hunter:</by>  You've never asked.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000163">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order, the Hon. Mr Hunter!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000164">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  We are well into a pandemic and SA Health—</text>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000165">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5413">The Hon. E.S. Bourke interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000166">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  Excuse me, could I be given the opportunity to answer?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000167">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon Ms Bourke! Members of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition will have the opportunity to ask some supplementaries and further questions, but let's listen to the minister. The minister.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000168">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  I have had constant discussions with the department on how we can improve our processes, and one example—I couldn't date it as to when it occurred, but one example was in recent months: SA Health established a review process, which Mr Hunter identified in his review. It wasn't there four or five months ago; it's there now. People who get a result from the exemptions committee will have the opportunity to have it reviewed. Mr Hunter's recommendation in relation to that is that it should not be called an appeal, it should be called an internal review. That recommendation has been accepted, but as—</text>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000169">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5413">The Hon. E.S. Bourke interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000170">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order, the Hon. Ms Bourke! I am trying to hear the minister and I am sure you can't because you're commenting—shouting—across the chamber. All of those interjections are out of order, and I am sure the minister is about to conclude his answer.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3122" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. I.K. Hunter</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000171">
          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. Hunter:</by>  Yes or no?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000172">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000173">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  So, yes, Mr Hunter, I have been constantly talking to my department about how to improve our processes.</text>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000174">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201013a36ce013857947fcb0000175">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order! A supplementary.</text>
      </talker>
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