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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
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Health Savings

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (15:28): As a part of the KordaMentha savings, the CEO said the work of some CALHN staff should be conducted by the community instead. Will the minister advise whether these jobs—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY: It all goes to the savings. Will this mean job losses for those staff and how many staff may lose their jobs to private providers?

The PRESIDENT: Minister, I will allow you to answer that question if you feel you wish to answer it, but it's not within the standing orders.

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:28): I just can't resist the temptation not to answer it—

The PRESIDENT: So I will give you the privilege, minister.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: —because what it does again is show the ignorance of the people on the other side. My understanding of the conversation in the committee yesterday was that a member of the opposition asking a question assumed that care in the community meant that that was privatisation. Community care—what she is referring to is acute level care, subacute care in the community outside the hospital. That is done every day by public health, SA Health, public sector, nurses, doctors, ambulance officers.

So if the honourable member is really suggesting that I should direct that no health professional in South Australia should provide any health care outside the hospital, I'm sorry, you're not going to get it from me.

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Wortley, I am not allowing you a second supplementary, no.

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY: This is directly related to the answer.

The PRESIDENT: Please be seated. Your first supplementary was completely out of order and broke every rule that I commented on before question time. I gave the minister the courtesy to answer. You cannot ask a supplementary on the answer to the supplementary. Your fellow members on the opposition benches can ask your important question later if I give them the call.

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