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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)
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Matter of Privilege

MATTER OF PRIVILEGE

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (11:03): Madam Speaker, I rise on a matter of privilege concerning the Minister for Transport (I am glad he is in the house) in his role as acting health minister. During question time on Thursday 7 July 2011, in response to a question from me, minister Conlon clearly stated that I had been wrong in a speech to the house on 6 July 2011 when I was discussing the emergency department's dashboards that had been put up on the health department's website. I said:

In the Women's and Children's Hospital today there is one poor little kid who has been waiting more than 24 hours for a bed.

Minister Conlon in his answer said:

...the member for Morphett follow from his statements in this house yesterday about a poor boy waiting 24 hours to be admitted to hospital. We checked that story and, of course, it was one hour and 20 minutes. I regret that anyone waits one hour and 20 minutes, but to say 24 hours is just absolutely disgraceful.

Ma'am, I have enclosed with this documentation here numerous copies of emergency department dashboards and the explanatory booklet that clearly show that on numerous occasions there were children waiting more than 24 hours for a bed. While I do not have the dashboard for Wednesday 6 July, I am sure a privileges committee would be able to obtain that information to show that I was indeed correct in what I said and that the minister has clearly misled the house.

The SPEAKER: Member for Morphett, I expect you to provide me with that documentation. I will look at it and come back to the house.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! There will be no arguments across the floor.

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