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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Older Persons Mental Health Service</name>
      <text id="201706212d0f6012533a4736b0000466">
        <heading>Older Persons Mental Health Service</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="question">
        <name>Mr MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2017-06-21">
            <name>Older Persons Mental Health Service</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:34):</by>  Is the minister aware that, as of today, the SA Health inpatient dashboard shows that there are four patients at the Lyell McEwin Hospital and four patients at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital who have been in mental health beds for over 100 days?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4336" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Taylor</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Disabilities</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
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          <question date="2017-06-21">
            <name>Older Persons Mental Health Service</name>
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        <startTime time="2017-06-21T14:34:27" />
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          <by role="member" id="4336">The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS (Taylor—Minister for Disabilities, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse) (14:34):</by>  What the Leader of the Opposition doesn't make clear is what sort of mental health patients they are and the variety of the conditions they may be facing.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="1804">Ms Chapman interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4336">The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS:</by>  No, I am not, and I have made a longstanding tradition of not revealing individual consumers, clinical notice and information across this space, nor would I—</text>
        <text id="201706212d0f6012533a4736b0000471">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="4336" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201706212d0f6012533a4736b0000472">
          <by role="member" id="4336">The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS:</by>  When there are cohorts of only four people that we are discussing—</text>
        <text id="201706212d0f6012533a4736b0000473">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="1804">Ms Chapman interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201706212d0f6012533a4736b0000474">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The deputy leader is warned for the second and final time.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4336" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4336">The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS:</by>  —I will not draw information to that level. What I will do is undertake to—</text>
        <text id="201706212d0f6012533a4736b0000476">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4338">Mr Marshall interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201706212d0f6012533a4736b0000477">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The leader is warned for the second and final time.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4336">The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS:</by>  —make some inquiries in those sections.</text>
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