Prisoner Support and Treatment

The Hon. S.G. WADE (15:02): I thank the minister for his answer. I appreciate the minister may need to take this supplementary on notice, but if I understood the minister's answer, the Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse issues an order under the Mental Health Act which allows the person to be detained in a correctional facility. My question is: do the collaborative discussions that the minister referred to occur before that order is issued and therefore the order is issued with the consent, for want of a better word, of the Department for Correctional Services, or is that a matter for the Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse to use personal ministerial discretion?

The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety) (15:02): I thank the honourable member for his supplementary question. That question is best directed to the responsible minister, which is the Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse. I will have to take that on notice and refer it to the responsible minister in the other place for a response.