Mental Health Beds

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (15:32): Is the government establishing any forensic beds for mental health patients with disabilities at the James Nash centre?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (15:32): I will get back to the member for Morphett with a full report of that. We are in the process of constructing 10 new beds at James Nash, and those beds, as I said in my ministerial statement, will be open, I think, next year. I realise it is an issue that we have been grappling with about patients at James Nash who, rather than having a mental illness, have an intellectual disability. It has been an issue of the appropriateness of having those patients at James Nash and we are moving to deal with that, but I will get a full report back to the member for Morphett.