Mental Health Beds

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:54): Supplementary, sir: earlier the minister made it clear that he was creating a new short-stay unit at the Flinders Medical Centre. How many beds will be in that short-stay unit? Will this be an additional number of beds in the hospital system in South Australia and that there will not be any cuts to any mental health beds in South Australia?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:54): It's already there. The short-stay unit in the Flinders Medical Centre has been in operation for some time. From memory, I think it's either six or eight beds and, yes, they are additional mental health beds.