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  <date date="2017-10-18" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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      <name>Chief Psychiatrist</name>
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        <heading>Chief Psychiatrist</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Chief Psychiatrist</name>
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:33):</by>  Supplementary: the minister actually hasn't answered a couple of my questions. Given that the indication was that Dr Groves was going to resign some four months earlier, what steps have been taken to secure a replacement, and under what authority is the acting chief psychiatrist currently making gazettals?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</electorate>
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          <question date="2017-10-18">
            <name>Chief Psychiatrist</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5084">The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse) (14:34):</by>  I am more than happy to take the second part of the honourable member's question on notice. I will seek advice so as to ensure that we can get an accurate response to the honourable member's question in regard to the acting chief psychiatrist. In regard to the first part of the Hon. Ms Lensink's question, the government is in the process of recruiting a new Chief Psychiatrist. That's what we are doing in response to his resignation.</text>
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