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MODBURY HOSPITAL

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:26): Why did the Minister for Health fail to ensure that his department exercise due diligence in the monitoring of the stocktake of goods when the government bought back the management of the Modbury Hospital?

The Auditor-General has revealed that the stocktake was completed by the previous private manager of the hospital, Healthscope, with an inventory, as at 30 June 2007, to the value of $926,808. It was listed on the invoice provided to the department, that is, what we bought back. The Department of Health failed to provide a representative—anyone—while the inventory was prepared to check the integrity of the stocktake.

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts) (15:27): I thank the deputy leader for the question. She started off by making comment in the way she phrased the question, of course, which is par for the course for the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. The Auditor-General's Report does, in fact, contain a comment from the health department saying that it should have had a representative there when this occurred. So, the answer to her question is, in fact, in the Auditor-General's Report.

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