House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2016-05-25 Daily Xml

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Question Time

Royal Adelaide Hospital

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:04): My question is to the Minister for Health. Does the minister—

The Hon. T.R. Kenyon interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Newland is called to order.

Mr MARSHALL: Does the minister now know the date that technical completion of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital will be achieved, and has the cure plan required by the major default notice been presented to and accepted by the government?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:04): To the first question, the answer is: nothing has changed since last week. To the second question: yes, a cure plan has been provided to the government, but it is not one which is acceptable to us, and that has been relayed back to the builder. I do find it extraordinary, though, that with a hospital the Liberal Party have been campaigning against for the last 10 years they should suddenly be in a rush to move in, something which they have told us for the last 10 years, 'You don't need a new hospital,' but suddenly we've got to move in.

Mr GARDNER: Point of order.

The SPEAKER: Bedad, it's a point of order from the member for Morialta!

Mr GARDNER: Yes, he was breaking 98.

The Hon. J.J. Snelling: I think I might have been.

The SPEAKER: We have a confession, not coerced, from the Minister for Health. Member for Giles.