Ministerial Statement

GLENSIDE HOSPITAL, ILLICIT DRUGS

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Environment and Conservation, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister Assisting the Minister for Health) (15:22): I seek leave to make a ministerial statement about the Margaret Tobin Centre.

Leave granted.

The Hon. G.E. GAGO: Earlier today during question time, an allegation was made that people have been approached and offered drugs outside the mental health facility on the Flinders hospital campus. I am advised that the Director of Mental Health Operations has spoken to the Executive Director, Mental Health, of the Southern Adelaide Health Service, who has advised that the service has not received any complaints regarding people attempting to sell illicit drugs at the entrance of the Margaret Tobin Centre. Further, the entrance is monitored by a surveillance camera as well as reception desk staff.