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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-10-26" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>COVID-19 Hospital Response</name>
      <text id="20211026d4141f2b442c4131a0000342">
        <heading>COVID-19 Hospital Response</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="2021-10-26">
            <name>COVID-19 Hospital Response</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-10-26T15:27:20" />
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          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (15:27):</by>  Supplementary: are any of the new COVID-ready beds that the minister has referred to fully operational today?</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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          <question date="2021-10-26">
            <name>COVID-19 Hospital Response</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-10-26T15:27:28" />
        <text id="20211026d4141f2b442c4131a0000344">
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:27):</by>  Yes. There are the 30 transition to home beds. Actually, sorry, they might not be fully operational. My understanding is that—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! I would like to hear the minister.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  I will certainly bring the honourable member back a specific answer on this but my understanding is that 28 of the 30 may well be activated. The final two are waiting for another substantial investment from the Marshall Liberal government to make sure that they can provide even better quality services to people with disability in South Australia.</text>
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