Ambulance Ramping

The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD (14:25): Supplementary question: minister, after spending the extraordinary amount of money you have just outlined, why hasn't ramping improved at all?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State) (14:25): I am happy, because the Hon. Dennis Hood generally asks what are actual supplementaries, in contrast to many of his colleagues. This one may have been borderline but I am happy to indulge the Hon. Dennis Hood.

The PRESIDENT: You are not reflecting on the Chair in any way?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER: Absolutely not. I would never reflect on Whyalla's finest in such a way, sir. The government is spending, as the honourable member has outlined, record amounts investing in our health system and it is showing some early results. There is now a two-thirds chance, as I said, of a priority ambulance—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. K.J. MAHER: —arriving on time, whereas under the former Liberal government, in 2021, the date of the petition to which I referred to in my answer, there was a two-thirds chance it wouldn't arrive on time.