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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Keolis Downer</name>
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        <heading>Keolis Downer</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">West Torrens</electorate>
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          <question date="2019-11-13">
            <name>Keolis Downer</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-11-13T15:02:50" />
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens) (15:02):</by>  Was Mr Grebe present at a meeting in the minister's—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  Sorry, sir, my apologies. My question is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Time is about to run out, but I am going to allow the question from the start. It's for the Minister for—</text>
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        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  Transport and Infrastructure.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2019111332198708cad04f76a0000673">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Thank you.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  Was Mr Sasha Grebe present at the meeting in the minister's office on 11 May 2019 to discuss proposals for outsourcing and managing public transport services provided by the South Australian government, and was a probity officer present during that meeting with the minister's chief of staff and his advisers?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4847" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.K. KNOLL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Schubert</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Transport</name>
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            <name>Minister for Planning</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-11-13T15:03:26" />
        <text id="2019111332198708cad04f76a0000675">
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          <by role="member" id="4847">The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (15:03):</by>  I might check, but I think the meeting that the member is referring to actually occurred in 2018 as opposed to 2019. I am happy to correct the information before the house, but I am fairly certain it was.</text>
        <text id="2019111332198708cad04f76a0000676">Essentially, what happened was that, very early upon coming to government, as a new minister with a new government there was a whole series of people who wanted to catch up and meet. At that time, I actually declined to meet personally with representatives from that company and did so because I wanted to get my feet under the desk and actually make sure that I had a greater handle on the job. But, more than that, I also took a cautious approach to make sure that I didn't do anything or meet with anybody that would otherwise create compromise down the track.</text>
        <text id="2019111332198708cad04f76a0000677">I was not at the meeting, and I think under FOI the member knows and has all the information that there is to have on this topic. I am fairly certain that that meeting was not in 2019 but, in fact, in 2018.</text>
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