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      <name>Older Persons Mental Health Unit</name>
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          <heading>Older Persons Mental Health Unit</heading>
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        <name>Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-08-24" qonNum="624">
            <name>Older Persons Mental Health Unit</name>
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          <inserted>624 <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna)</by> (24 August 2021).  What was the total operational cost last financial year for the older persons mental health unit at Lyell McEwin Hospital?</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morialta</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education</name>
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          <question date="2021-08-24" qonNum="624">
            <name>Older Persons Mental Health Unit</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta—Minister for Education):</by>  The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>For the 2020-21 financial year the total operational cost for the older persons mental health unit at Lyell McEwin Hospital was in excess of $20,000,000.</inserted>
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