Oakden Mental Health Facility

Mr DULUK (Davenport) (14:49): My question is to the member for Taylor. Have you been questioned by ICAC in relation to the Oakden inquiry?

The SPEAKER: I warn the member for Davenport because he must know—he must have known when he rose to ask the question—that it was out of order.

Mr DULUK: Point of order, sir: yesterday you ruled that the member for Wright could ask the member for Mount Gambier a question in a similar vein. Today, you have ruled the same question out of order.

The SPEAKER: Yes, I did, for the compelling reason that yesterday's questions were about—

Mr Whetstone interjecting:

The SPEAKER: To whom is the member for Chaffey referring?

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis: To me, sir.

The SPEAKER: That's alright then. The questions from the member for Wright to the member for Mount Gambier yesterday—there were two of them—were just in order because the member for Mount Gambier is responsible to the house for his pecuniary interests register. The member for Taylor is not responsible to the house for—

Mr DULUK: She is responsible for her conduct as a minister, and ICAC is interested in that.

The SPEAKER: It is not a circumstance where a private member, a backbencher, is responsible to the house when that person has ceased to be a minister. The question should, perhaps, be addressed to the current minister or to the Premier. In any case, we know what the ICAC law of this state is: if the member did it outside the house he would be committing an offence. The only thing that covers him for what he has just done is parliamentary privilege, but he is out of order and I rule the question out. Does the member have another question?

Mr DULUK: No, sir.