Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
2020-03-03 Daily Xml

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Coronavirus

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (15:13): Supplementary question arising from the original answer, where the Treasurer outlined specific extra commitments made for bushfire responses: has there been any extra allocation of funding for SA Health at this stage in a direct response to the coronavirus outbreak?

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (15:13): We continue to work with SA Health on its continued budgetary pressures across the broad ambit of challenges it confronts, part of which will of course be the coronavirus. The challenges that SA Health faces in terms of the challenges for its hospitals and its public health services, and a whole variety of other things, comes within the totality of a $6 billion-plus budget. We collegially work together in this cabinet to meet the challenges as best we can, and we will continue to do so.