Adelaide Remand Centre

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:33): My question is to the Minister for Correctional Services. How has the staff ratio at the Adelaide Remand Centre changed since the facility was privatised? With your leave and that of the house, sir, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Mr MALINAUSKAS: On FIVEaa radio this morning, the Chief Executive of the Department for Correctional Services, Mr David Brown, said, and I quote:

There’s no doubt that there are fewer staff and different hours of operation at the prison to the hours of operation that we operated as a publicly operated prison.

How many fewer staff, minister?

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA (Hartley—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services) (14:33): I have been very clear in my answers thus far to this house that there are a number—

Mr Malinauskas interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The leader is warned.

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA: —of investigations underway to make sure that we can find out how this incident happened and why this incident happened. We will look at those investigations and determine why and how this happened and, as a government, we will address them.