House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
2012-04-05 Daily Xml

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HEALTH BUDGET

The Hon. I.F. EVANS (Davenport) (15:54): My question is to the Treasurer. Were financial reporting procedures in place to report to the government any working capital deficiency in the health entities and, if so, why is it that at 30 June the Children's, Youth and Women's Health Service had a working capital deficiency of $14.1 million?

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts) (15:55): I am happy to get advice in relation to that. I am not certain, but it could well be that we were waiting for flows of capital from the commonwealth which was funding a large expansion project on that site, but I will get advice. In relation to the other question the member asked me in terms of which of the health services received unqualified audit opinion, they were the Department of Health, SA Ambulance Service, the Women's and Children's Health Service (so, three) and two others, Country Health and Adelaide Health Service, did not.