Gillman Land Sale

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:50): A further supplementary if I may.

The SPEAKER: Deputy leader.

Ms CHAPMAN: My further supplementary is to the Minister for Police. When did you first find out that you were going to have responsibility—

The SPEAKER: No, when the did the minister first find out.

Ms CHAPMAN: When did the minister first find out that he was going to have responsibility for the DPA of the Gillman site and by whom?

The Hon. T.R. Kenyon interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Newland is called to order.

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Child Protection Reform) (14:51): The Minister for Police has in the past on at least one occasion that I can think of—

Mr Pengilly: Let him get up and answer it, John.

The SPEAKER: The member for Finniss is called to order.

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Treasurer is called to order.

Mr Williams interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for MacKillop is warned the first time.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: The Minister for Police has, to the best of my memory, at least on one other occasion been prepared to assist in matters relating to the determination of planning matters. The process, as best as I can understand it, is that when I have formed the view that for the sort of reasons that I have already explained to the house, for reasons largely of apparent separation of decision-making, I have asked my staff to communicate with the staff of the Minister for Police and asked—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Mr Speaker, I would like to finish this sentence. My staff—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Even Kirsten—I asked my staff to communicate with the Minister for Police's staff to see whether he would be available to assist. In the event that I am advised by my staff that he is available to assist, I then ask my staff to arrange for the necessary staff from the Department of Planning to communicate with the Minister for Police's chief of staff or other nominated person, whoever they might be, and then they, independently of me, arrange to meet with the Minister for Police at a time and place of his choosing, and they tell him whatever he asks them to share with him, and I have no part in that process at all.