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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-06-13T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Ambulance Ramping</heading>
        </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2023-06-13T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">the Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) </by>().7 March 2023).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <question date="2023-06-13T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector):</by>  The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Malinauskas Labor government has been very clear, both before and after the election, that our number one priority is to fix the ramping crisis. </inserted>
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        <text id="202306136d65ef2bd9f84942a0000713">
          <inserted>The Liberals left the health system in disarray and now our government is doing the hard work to turn the system around. </inserted>
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          <inserted>We are opening every hospital bed possible to improve patient flow, and we are investing a record $2.4 billion to open more than 550 additional beds, recruit hundreds more doctors, nurses and ambos and build and upgrade key health infrastructure to provide the capacity our healthcare system needs.</inserted>
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      </talker>
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