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House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:49): My question is to the Minister for Health. Has the government's master plan for the Royal Adelaide Hospital site been costed and, if so, what is the cost of demolition of the buildings, the reparation cost and the total cost of the master plan?

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts) (14:50): I refer to a ministerial statement I made yesterday after question time when I said the master planning process was being undertaken and that the suggestions that were put by the Leader of the Opposition that we were planning to sell any of the buildings on the site were completely and absolutely untrue.

I think it was the Leader of the Opposition who passed to me a copy of an article that appeared in the Sunday Mail, which made some reference to the fact that the buildings were to be sold. That was the Sunday Mail's comment, it certainly was not mine, and there is no way we would allow any of the buildings to be sold. The process of determining how much it will cost will obviously have to be worked out.

I said on the radio program I was on yesterday with the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (I do not know whether she heard me say that then, but I am happy to say it again now) that we would hope that the value that is inherent in the heritage buildings can be put against the cost of the demolition and we will be able to move, we would hope, some arts organisation in there as well, which would free up other resources. So, I would hope that we get to being cost neutral or close to cost neutral but, obviously, that has to be worked through. We are talking about something that will happen post 2016. So, despite—

The Hon. K.O. Foley: But they have to knock the buildings down to build their new one.

The Hon. J.D. HILL: Yes, of course. As the Treasurer (ever alert to the issue of money) indicated, of the three options that the Liberals have brought forward—which they have costed, but they are costings they will not stand by until after the election, when they have 100 days (it is almost biblical) of consultation. Then within, I think, three months of the consultation they will begin building works (it is fantastic to spend $1.4 billion after 100 days of thinking) and then of course they will have it all built by 2016. I think not. They are totally fraudulent claims made by the opposition in relation to this.

As the Deputy Premier said, under the propositions put forward by the Liberal Party, the buildings that would be pulled down obviously would have to be paid for as well. So, I assume, given that the deputy leader has gone through the costings for her three options, she would probably have a better idea of how much that would cost than I. As I said, we are going through that master planning exercise.

The Hon. K.O. Foley interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

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