00:02It's been nearly four years since Labor shifted the location of the new Women's and Children's Hospital
00:07and the Government insists it will only be another five until it's finished.
00:10The project is not behind. It is on time to be complete in 2031.
00:16The final build will have 56 more beds than the current Women's and Kids.
00:20The Health Minister keen to highlight progress, with a 1300 space car park nearly done
00:25and drilling underway on the hospital's concrete supports.
00:28It has been a huge task to get to the stage that we are at now.
00:32Not since the castle's Dale Kerrigan have we seen someone wanting so much credit for digging a hole.
00:38The opposition also telling the Government they're dreaming on the project's $3.2 billion budget.
00:44Some details of the hospital's design are not finalised,
00:47despite the Health Network saying they'd be done by last month.
00:50We are 90%, we are almost there.
00:52But just to reiterate to you Thomas, that does not hold up the completion of the project.
00:57How can you be adamant that you'll be delivering this project on time when you haven't even done the final
01:02designs?
01:03What project are they so adamant about?
01:04The new Royal Adelaide Hospital blew out by more than $600 million
01:08and opened a year behind schedule.
01:11More recently, the new Mount Barker Hospital is costing an additional $140 million.
01:16But the Health Minister wouldn't be drawn on whether the women's and kids will face a blowout on a similar
01:21scale.
01:22I'm not going to foreshadow what it may or may not be, Thomas.
01:25I totally understand people's interest in it, but they will.
01:28They will.
01:28No one would suggest for a second that the Government is going to be able to build
01:31the new Women's and Children's Hospital for a price that ultimately is not made public.
01:35A bad news story that can't be kept underground forever.
01:38I don't know if you have any questions like this..
