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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2008-05-01" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Second Session (51-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Glenside Hospital, Illicit Drugs</name>
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        <heading>GLENSIDE HOSPITAL, ILLICIT DRUGS</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2008-05-01">
            <name>GLENSIDE HOSPITAL, ILLICIT DRUGS</name>
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:32):</by>  I have a supplementary question arising from the answer. Does that mean that, when I raise these allegations in the future, the minister would rather that I name patients at Glenside from the information I have received on the public record?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1821" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Environment and Conservation</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister Assisting the Minister for Health</name>
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          <question date="2008-05-01">
            <name>GLENSIDE HOSPITAL, ILLICIT DRUGS</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Environment and Conservation, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister Assisting the Minister for Health) (14:32):</by>  The honourable member knows only too well that, if any member of parliament or, for that matter, any member of the public, has any specific concerns, they are invited to bring them to me or any one of my officers and they will be investigated immediately.</text>
        <text id="20080501a3fb982e8851431e80000295">The honourable member knows only too well how important it is not to sensationalise aspects concerning mental health. She knows that, and she knows that it is just cheap political grandstanding to sensationalise these types of issues involving some of our most vulnerable community members. As I have put on record before, and I will continue to put on record, if this individual has any problem related to specific patients or individual issues, I invite the honourable member to bring them to me and they will be addressed urgently.</text>
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