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House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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IRIS SYSTEMS

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:25): My question again is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister explain why SA Pathology, the new state-owned pathology service, has entered into a $300,000 a year contract with IRIS Systems International Pty Ltd when this company is still under investigation by the police department and the Attorney-General's Government Investigations Unit?

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts) (14:26): As I understand it, the IT company to which the honourable member refers provides a particular information service to SA Pathology and, as I understand it—and I am going from memory, I will certainly correct all this if I am wrong—the IT was developed within the IMVS—and this is part of the investigation—through some sort of process which then ended up being owned outside the service, but it is a bit of information technology that they require. I have very serious concerns about the way the IMVS was run and that is one of the reasons I introduced legislation in this place to get rid of the barriers between government and that body. We have now created a new service which is being run, I believe, in a much better fashion.

Ms Chapman interjecting:

The Hon. J.D. HILL: You are making assumptions and slurring people on the basis of pieces of information which you stitch together in your usual fashion. It is a most unreasonable process that you go through. I am happy to provide the house with the information in relation to this matter. I am telling the house what I recall, but I will have the question checked and I will get a fuller explanation.

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