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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2021-09-23" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Country Fire Service</name>
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          <heading>Country Fire Service</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4842" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Lee</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-09-23">
            <name>Country Fire Service</name>
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        <text id="202109235afaceb2a41a42e090001693">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4842">the Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee)</by> (28 July 2021).  (Estimates Committee B)</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Treasurer</electorate>
        <text id="202109235afaceb2a41a42e090001694">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer):</by>  I have been advised the following:</inserted>
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        <text id="202109235afaceb2a41a42e090001695">
          <inserted>No recruitment firm was engaged for the recruitment process that resulted in the appointment of Mr Dominic Lane as the Chief Executive of SAFECOM on  3 June 2019. </inserted>
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          <inserted>VUCA was engaged through a standard tender process in 2019 to support the recruitment for the role of Chief Officer of Country Fire Service, which Mr Mark Jones was appointed to on 1 October 2019. </inserted>
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          <inserted>Another recruitment process was undertaken for the SAFECOM role after Mr Lane resigned on 1 April 2021. Rosemary Hardham and Associates was engaged to support this recruitment. The cost of services provided by Rosemary Hardham and Associates was $32,500 plus GST.</inserted>
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