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  <date date="2019-11-12" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Port Augusta Fire Station</name>
      <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001019">
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          <heading>Port Augusta Fire Station</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4335" kind="question">
        <name>Mr ODENWALDER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Elizabeth</electorate>
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          <question date="2019-09-25" qonNum="1459">
            <name>Port Augusta Fire Station</name>
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          <inserted>1459 <by role="member" id="4335">Mr ODENWALDER (Elizabeth)</by> (25 September 2019).  Has the minister read the Quark and Associates report into claims of misconduct at the Port Augusta Fire Station, commissioned by the MFS this year?</inserted>
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        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001021">
          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;What action has the Minister or his agency taken as a result of the Quark and Associates report?</inserted>
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        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001022">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Has anyone been stood down with or without pay, or deployed to another site, as a result of this independent report?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001023">
          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;Will the Minister make any aspect of the Quark and Associates report public? If not, why not?</inserted>
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        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001024">
          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;Has the Minister or his office or department ordered any further investigation, inquiry or report into the claims of misconduct at the Port Augusta Fire Station?</inserted>
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        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001025">
          <inserted>5.&amp;#x9;Have any allegations arising from this report been referred to SAPOL or to the ICAC?</inserted>
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        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001026">
          <inserted>6.&amp;#x9;Have allegations of misuse of a credit card by a senior MFS officer, reported in <term>The Advertiser </term>on 3 September 2019, been referred to SAPOL or to the ICAC? Who is that senior officer, what is his rank and where is he posted?</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4843" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.L. WINGARD</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Gibson</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Police</name>
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            <name>Minister for Recreation</name>
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          <question date="2019-09-25" qonNum="1459">
            <name>Port Augusta Fire Station</name>
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        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001027">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4843">The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing):</by>
          </inserted>
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        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001028">
          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;I have been provided with a copy of the Quark and Associates report into claims of misconduct at the Port Augusta Fire Station.</inserted>
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        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001029">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;A long term action plan will be implemented to manage issues at Port Augusta which includes, but is not limited to; psychological support, additional training support, planned supervision and a review of the reporting system.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001030">
          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;The MFS has suspended an employee who has been referred to the MFS Disciplinary Committee.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001031">
          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;Consideration as to whether to make any aspect of the report public will await the finalisation of any investigation being undertaken as a result of the allegations arising from the report being referred to the appropriate authorities<term>.</term></inserted>
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        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001032">
          <inserted>5.&amp;#x9;Allegations arising from the report have been reported to the appropriate authorities.</inserted>
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        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001033">
          <inserted>6.&amp;#x9;Allegations arising from the report have been reported to the appropriate authorities.</inserted>
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        <text id="20191112f2b9398ef53146ad80001034">
          <inserted>7.&amp;#x9;Allegations arising from the report have been reported to the appropriate authorities.</inserted>
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