Oakden Mental Health Facility

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:38): Supplementary to the Minister for Mental Health: so, from Monday afternoon when the report was received, read by someone unspecified and your reading it on the following weekend, you had no information from anyone on your staff about what was in it?

The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS (Taylor—Minister for Disabilities, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse) (15:39): I knew from the nature of what had been outlined to me from the concerns of the Spriggs family that we had concerns about this facility, which is the reason we triggered the report. The depth of the issues, the disheartening and distressing issues that have been going on at Oakden, was not something I was aware of until I fully read the report over the weekend. I took time on that weekend to take the recommendations and read them thoroughly. In fact, I went over certain sections and re-read them because it is such an important document that it warranted slow and considerate appreciation of what was going on.