Festival Plaza Redevelopment

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:34): Supplementary to the Attorney-General: given that three freedom of information applications were issued in respect of correspondence covering the period in late 2013, of which the Attorney-General himself—

The SPEAKER: Can we have a question?

Ms CHAPMAN: —as the minister provided one document, can he explain why the bundle of documents prepared by DPTI and the FOI officer that was sent to the Attorney-General's Department late last year has not been returned?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:34): As we would all appreciate, dealing with freedom of information matters, either as requestors or as people held to account for their contents, these matters are managed by the agencies. What is discovered, of course, needs to be done in accordance with the provisions of the FOI Act. The level of detail within the documents that are discovered is also—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: This is the second time I have pointed out to the leader that he is on two warnings. I thought the idea of the member for Heysen interjecting instead was an inspired one. Minister.

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. As I was saying, the way in which these responses are managed is done by agencies according to law. The level of discovery and the level of detail which is released within those discovered documents is done by the accredited FOI agents within each of these agencies. If the question is: why haven't documents, which were provided for the purpose of responding to a freedom of information application to one agency that were provided by another agency in an effort to respond to that, not been returned to the client agency, well, that's a great question. I will ask the agency involved.