House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
2013-11-13 Daily Xml

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ENTERPRISE PATIENT ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:08): Just for clarification, there was never any situation in which the EPAS was going to be rolled out across all hospitals in South Australia?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for Defence Industries, Minister for Veterans' Affairs) (14:08): I am not responsible for whatever utterances might have been made previously, but the simple fact is that there has been no change to the scope of the project since cabinet signed off on EPAS. Let's get this straight, Mr Speaker: the opposition hate EPAS, they hate what the government is doing in health, they hate the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, they hate the new Women's and Children's Hospital, and they are simply not interested in the health portfolio. All they are interested in doing is whining and carping from the sidelines, with made-up statistics, made-up rubbish. They pick up bits of scuttlebutt wherever they can find it—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Minister—

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: They pick up bits of scuttlebutt—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Minister for Health will be seated. I call the Minister for Health to order. He is not responsible for the opposition's disposition on health. I also call to order the leader—

Mr Marshall: Sorry, sir. I apologise profusely.

The SPEAKER: I accept your apology, but the call to order stands—and the member for Davenport for applauding in the course of an answer.

Mr Marshall: He was applauding your wonderful chairmanship.

The SPEAKER: No, he wasn't. The member for Colton.