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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-02-17" />
  <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>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Ambulance Services</name>
      <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000029">
        <heading>Ambulance Services</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="5412" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2021-02-17">
            <name>Ambulance Services</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2021-02-17T14:24:09" />
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000030">
          <timeStamp time="2021-02-17T14:24:09" />
          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:24):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding ambulances.</text>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000031">Leave granted.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5412" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000032">
          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN:</by>  The government's ambulance report makes three recommendations including to increase ambulance capacity and to boost senior clinical support to assist in triaging ambulance call-outs. In his brief written response to the report's release and recommendations, the minister claimed the government was 'investing additional resources'. My questions to the minister are:</text>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000033">1.&amp;#x9;Does the minister commit to implementing all three report recommendations in full?</text>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000034">2.&amp;#x9;Can the minister identify the additional resources he was referring to in his public statements?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
          </portfolio>
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        <startTime time="2021-02-17T14:24:54" />
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000035">
          <timeStamp time="2021-02-17T14:24:54" />
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:24):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her question and refer her to my previous answer.</text>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000036">
          <event kind="interjection">Members 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="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000037">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  No, I'm sorry, will you let me go on? Can I answer?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <page num="2663" />
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000038">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order! No-one can hear the minister so how do you know what he is saying?</text>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000039">
          <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="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000040">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:  Order!</by> 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="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000041">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  As I said, I refer the honourable member to my previous answer where I highlighted—</text>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000042">
          <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="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000043">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Leader of the Opposition 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>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000044">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  —the fact that the chief executive is specifically looking at the opportunity for the clinical telephone assessment service—</text>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000045">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000046">
          <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="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000047">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  —to support the desk-based function in terms of maintaining line of sight. That to me sounds like—</text>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000048">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000049">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order! Resume your seat, minister. I would like to hear the end of the minister's answer. I don't think anybody else is hearing it at the moment because there is a lot of shouting going on, and some of that has been contributed by members on my right.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000050">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  Mr President, this is a growing pattern by the opposition. If they don't like the answer they try to yell it down. If you ask a question—</text>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000051">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000052">
          <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="20210217dd62fb1fee2e4b3b80000053">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  —and I've got an answer I'm going to give it whether you like it or not.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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