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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:02): Supplementary: on what date was it brought to the minister's attention?

The Hon. B.I. BOYER (Wright—Minister for Education, Training and Skills) (15:02): I thank the member for Morialta for his question. I am very happy to answer as best I can the member for Morialta's question here, but I have to say I think it is a tad disappointing that we have found ourselves in this semantics back and forth about a funding initiative which I am pretty sure everyone in this chamber would agree is desperately needed out there.

We are talking about 100 extra FTE for things like psychologists, speech and occupational therapists, youth workers. We know we have an enormous issue in our society with issues around mental health presenting earlier in young people's lives and more severely. We have suicidal ideation presenting itself from primary-age students, and we are taking action. Ms Bourke, as the Assistant Minister for Autism, is part of that action. I support her work greatly. I think it is very disappointing if we get bogged down in who said what and when, instead of focusing on the fantastic work these 100 extra FTEs are going to do.

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