Page 3217 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 22 August 2012
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MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves, resume your seat.
Mrs Dunne: Madam Deputy Speaker, this is just an “around the world for sixpence” rant by Mr Hargreaves on loose word associations. He is supposed to be talking to the report. This is the second time, the second successive report, where the opposition has had to take points of order on the fact that Mr Hargreaves is not being relevant to the report. If he wants to talk about recommendations in the report, that is fine. But what Mr Hargreaves thinks I may have said about a member of his family three years ago is not relevant to the Auditor-General’s report. If he wants to talk about the Auditor-General’s report, he should be asked to be relevant or he should be sat down.
MR HARGREAVES: Madam Deputy Speaker, on the point of order—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves, you need to be relevant.
MR HARGREAVES: Thank you very much for that, and I will not go to the point of order. I am talking about the insistence of those people opposite, publicly and through this report, on the issuing of a public apology to an officer of the Health Directorate and how rich it is for them to do that.
When Bill Wood, a minister in this place, had his emails hacked into, and it was proven in the privileges committee here that an officer working in the Leader of the Opposition’s office had hacked into those emails, was there an apology to Bill Wood for that? No, there was not. Was there an apology for the hounding out of Mark Cormack from his CEO job in the Health Directorate? No, there was not. And that goes to this very subject—this very subject of a corporate culture and the need for an apology.
Mr Hanson: Madam Deputy Speaker—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Hanson?
Mr Hanson: You have repeatedly asked Mr Hargreaves to stay on topic. He has repeatedly ignored your requests. I remind you that you have warned a number of members on this side of the House for interjections, but you continue to allow Mr Hargreaves to ignore your rulings. I plead with you to please bring Mr Hargreaves to order, to make him relevant to the matter at hand, which is the emergency department performance.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Hanson. Mr Hargreaves, you must remain relevant.
MR HARGREAVES: I am. Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am talking about recommendation 12 and recommendation 13—how an organisational culture can affect an officer’s performance and how in fact the culture in this place and its attack on our public service can affect the performance of those officers. And I am going to the point where these people here have, as part of their own organisational culture, that which will bring people to their knees in the public services. And I have proven it.
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