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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2022-02-08" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>COVID-19 Information Line</name>
      <text id="202202086e70b0fd848f4f04b0000194">
        <heading>COVID-19 Information Line</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6802" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. R.A. SIMMS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2022-02-08">
            <name>COVID-19 Information Line</name>
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        <startTime time="2022-02-08T15:17:59" />
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          <by role="member" id="6802">The Hon. R.A. SIMMS (15:17):</by>  Supplementary: can the minister provide the wait time for the information line that I and others suffering with COVID-19 would have been referred to—that is the line that provides medical assistance—and if the minister doesn't think that 60 callers in a queue is a long period of time to wait, how long does he think South Australians should wait on a line before they receive medical assistance when dealing with a potentially deadly virus?</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="2022-02-08">
            <name>COVID-19 Information Line</name>
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        <startTime time="2022-02-08T15:18:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:18):</by>  Let me clarify: I wasn't reflecting on the honourable member in the sense of his view that he wasn't getting an adequate service. I was just raising the point that, with a large call centre, 60 calls could be gone through quite quickly. Certainly, in response to the honourable member's direct question, I will certainly perhaps get indicative wait times over the period.</text>
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