Child Protection

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:31): Supplementary: isn't the minister concerned enough, having read those summaries of the issues raised, to make inquiry, even in her own department, about whether children being left at risk, with one carer, is an unacceptable—

The SPEAKER: The deputy leader has asked a question, now she is debating the question. Minister.

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Minister.

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills) (14:32): The question of what is being presented to the royal commission is something that simply has to wait for the royal commission. It is not something that is coming directly to me. I am not in a position to be able to ask questions of the people making those statements to the royal commissioner, and she is doing her job as well as possible so it is not helpful for me to try to offer running commentary on that.