House of Assembly Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1) 54 1 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Question Time Residential Care Facility Visits Residential Care Facility Visits Ms STINSON House of Assembly Badcoe Residential Care Facility Visits Ms STINSON (Badcoe) (14:37): My question is to the Minister for Child Protection. What qualifications does the minister have for counselling vulnerable young children in residential care? The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN House of Assembly The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN: Point of order, Mr Speaker. The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: Point of order. Qualifications? Yes? The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN House of Assembly The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN: The question assumes that there has been counselling administered by the minister. That is a presumption of a fact that has not been either alleged or admitted in this forum. The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: Could you please repeat the question, member for Badcoe? Ms STINSON House of Assembly Ms STINSON: I can, Mr Speaker. What qualifications does the minister have for counselling vulnerable young people in residential care? The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: The Minister for Child Protection has the call. The Hon. R. SANDERSON House of Assembly Adelaide Minister for Child Protection The Hon. R. SANDERSON (Adelaide—Minister for Child Protection) (14:38): As the Minister for Child Protection, I believe it is my role to visit and listen to the voices of the children who are under my care. Along with the staff, I have been meeting department staff, residential care staff, foster carers, kinship carers and children. I will continue to listen to the voices who, under the former Labor government, were never heard. We have a mess of a child protection system, and I will do everything I can to fix it. The Hon. V.A. Chapman interjecting: The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: The Deputy Premier is warned.