Page 4664 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 19 October 2011
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MRS DUNNE: A supplementary question.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mrs Dunne.
MRS DUNNE: Minister, if there is no legal sanction for 24 breaches of the law, what is the point of the law?
MR CORBELL: That is a rhetorical question, Mr Speaker.
Children and young people—care and protection
MR DOSZPOT: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Chief Minister. I refer to your comments on ABC radio today about Ms Burch:
In terms of her own responsibilities, she has fulfilled them and fulfilled them to a very high standard.
That is from ABC 666. Chief Minister, how can you claim that Ms Burch fulfilled her responsibilities to a very high standard when the Public Advocate found that her department broke the law 24 times, resulting in children being left highly traumatised?
MS GALLAGHER: My comments on ABC radio this morning were true and accurate at all times.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Doszpot, a supplementary question.
Mrs Dunne interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne, you do not have the floor. Mr Doszpot has the floor.
MR DOSZPOT: Minister, who should be held accountable for the Community Services Directorate breaking the law 24 times, resulting in children being left highly traumatised?
MS GALLAGHER: The government has not accepted that the directorate has broken the law 24 times, as I said and alluded to. I know the opposition are salivating at the advice they have got in the Public Advocate’s report.
Opposition members interjecting—
Mr Hargreaves: On a point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Stop the clocks, please.
Mr Hargreaves: My point of order is not about the raucous noise, it is about Mr Smyth’s comment suggesting that Ms Burch had misled the Assembly. I would ask you to ask him to withdraw.
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