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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) (14:40): My question is to the Minister for Health. Has the minister maintained—

Mr Hamilton-Smith: He's asleep.

Ms CHAPMAN: He is waking up now. Has the minister maintained an intellectual property register and received an annual report each year from his chief executive, pursuant to the state intellectual property policy? If so, what particulars were disclosed in respect of the IRIS 2 system and its transfer for $1 on 12 September 2006 in the said register? Pursuant to clauses 2.3 and 6.2 of the state intellectual property policy of July 2006—

The Hon. K.O. Foley interjecting:

Ms CHAPMAN: You would know the state policy off by heart, Kevin. Pursuant to those clauses, chief executive officers are required to maintain intellectual property registers and report to their ministers each year about how they are managed.

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts) (14:42): I thank the deputy leader for her question. She is referring again to a matter that was raised in the house of week or so ago in relation to intellectual property matters which are the subject of police, Auditor-General, Government Investigations Unit, and now DPP consideration, so I do not want to go into the particulars of that.

This is a complex set of arrangements that we are investigating. As members would know, the government moved to get rid of the board which ran the IMVS. The IMVS itself owns a corporation called Medvet, a proprietary limited company which has its own board and which operates at arm's length. We are going through a process to understand exactly what has been going on in those organisations and how matters to do with intellectual property have been dealt with. In relation to the particulars of the matter about registers and the advice the department has, I am happy to get a full report for the member.

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