SA:Hospital cost row intensifies

AAP General News (Australia)
04-15-2011
SA:Hospital cost row intensifies

A row over costings for the new Royal Adelaide hospital has intensified .. with the
state Labor government and opposition at odds over documents the Liberals refuse to release.

The opposition says the documents show taxpayers will pick up the cost of providing
electricity to the new facility when it opens in 2016.

The opposition's DAVID RIDGWAY says the government previously claimed this would be
the responsibility of the private consortium building the new facility.

But Health Minister JOHN HILL has dismissed this .. telling the ABC the consortium
was never going to pick up the power bills for the next 35 years .. but will be arranging
for the power to be delivered.

He says it'll then bill the government for the power .. as part of the hospital's agreed
running costs.

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KEYWORD: HOSPITAL (ADELAIDE)

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