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FILM HUB, GLENSIDE

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg) (15:28): My question is to the Minister for Health. When was the minister—

The Hon. P.F. Conlon: Is this question going to be verbal?

The SPEAKER: Order!

Ms CHAPMAN: Listen up, sweetheart, listen up.

The Hon. M.J. Atkinson interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Member for Croydon, behave.

Ms CHAPMAN: Thank you, Madam Speaker. I need protection, too. I'm such a sensitive person.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Ms CHAPMAN: When was the minister—

Members interjecting:

Ms CHAPMAN: We're back on the Minister for Health.

An honourable member: On health now?

Ms CHAPMAN: Can't hear? Do you want a hearing aid? It's a long waiting list.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Ms CHAPMAN: When was the minister—

An honourable member interjecting:

Ms CHAPMAN: It's to you. It's you. I'm asking you.

An honourable member interjecting:

Ms CHAPMAN: A very long list.

The SPEAKER: Order! Will the member get back to the question.

Ms CHAPMAN: Thank you, Madam Speaker. When was the minister and the Department of Health advised—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Ms CHAPMAN: Are you still with me?

Members interjecting:

Ms CHAPMAN: When was the minister or the Department of Health advised that the Premier's film hub at Glenside would be a construction site for a year longer than expected, and will the department review the completion date for the hospital as a result of this? With your leave and that of the house, I will explain, Madam Speaker. The Glenside campus—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Ms CHAPMAN: The Glenside campus—

The SPEAKER: Order!

Ms CHAPMAN: Thank you, Madam Speaker. As you know, Madam Speaker, this a statewide psychiatric facility for all of South Australia, including your electorate, and I appreciate that. The Glenside campus—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: Point of order, Madam Speaker. The opportunity to ask a question is not one to make a speech. Perhaps we could get a question in here somewhere today?

The SPEAKER: We have had the question and we are now having the explanation—

Ms CHAPMAN: The explanation, yes.

The SPEAKER: —and I would ask you to draw it to a close.

Ms CHAPMAN: The Glenside campus is a major construction site at this point, with dirt and earthmoving equipment next to the patient facilities. The state budget this year reveals that not only is the Premier's film hub getting an extra $1.3 million from the Treasurer this year but it will take a year longer than expected to complete.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Minister for Health.

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts) (15:32): Madam Speaker, I struggle—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.D. HILL: I do find it passing strange, Madam Speaker, that the shadow opposition spokesperson for both disability and ageing would make a joke about my hearing. I have had my hearing tested, as it happens, and as a result of that test I know I have hearing loss at higher pitch levels, particularly when there is a lot of background noise.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.D. HILL: And I am told—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The minister will answer the question.

The Hon. J.D. HILL: I am told, Madam Speaker, that that loss of hearing is absolutely consistent for somebody of my advanced years. It is absolutely just so typical of the member for Bragg to make jokes about such things. The other point I make (I say this parenthetically)—my doctor did tell me there are some very good hearing aids I could get if I chose to which would allow me to pick up sound very well. He said it would actually be very useful in parliament. I could tune in—

The SPEAKER: Order! Point of order, member for Bragg.

Ms CHAPMAN: Whilst I am sure we are all sympathetic to the minister's health issues—

The SPEAKER: Yes.

Ms CHAPMAN: —the question was: when was he advised?

The SPEAKER: Yes, thank you; I uphold that point of order. Minister, could you please answer the question?

The Hon. J.D. HILL: Well, I am not sure that I actually heard exactly what she was saying, so I am happy to read it, and I will get an answer for her.

The SPEAKER: Thank you.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! He will get back to you.

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