Mental Health Services

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:50): So funding that has been cut that would help to assist homeless people, would help homeless people to actually apply, is reduced. How are these homeless people now going to be assisted to apply for the NDIS?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:50): There is a range of other ways that people can access support and assistance. We have a range of homelessness service providers and some of them provide assistance for services through Centrelink and that range of things as well. The local area coordinators—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: Mr President, they just don't understand the system. We did have a briefing. I find it quite amazing that we went to all the trouble last year of organising a briefing for every member of parliament in South Australia with the NDIA to explain how the process works, and we constantly have Labor members coming into this place clearly expressing that they don't even understand the basic pathways.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Minister, sit down. No more supplementaries on this issue; the opposition benches can decide to use their other questions for this if they want. The Hon. Mr Wortley, please don't carry on a conversation with the Hon. Mr Ridgway in earshot; I was trying to listen to the minister.

The Hon. R.P. Wortley interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: It wasn't even witty. I might have been more tolerant if there were anything of humour in it. The Hon. Ms Lee.