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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2021-10-12" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Volunteer Screening</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Volunteer Screening</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4978" kind="question">
        <name>Ms COOK</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Hurtle Vale</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-08-25" qonNum="707">
            <name>Volunteer Screening</name>
          </question>
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        <text id="2021101289e0dc6d4c91463fa0002773">
          <inserted>707 <by role="member" id="4978">Ms COOK (Hurtle Vale)</by> (25 August 2021).  With regard to the free volunteer screening during financial year 2020-21:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2021101289e0dc6d4c91463fa0002774">
          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;How many of the volunteers who availed themselves of free screening subsequently went into paid work and repaid the waived fee for their screening?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2021101289e0dc6d4c91463fa0002775">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;How many people have been found to be using a free screening as a worker?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2021101289e0dc6d4c91463fa0002776">
          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;Has the department had any reports of this and/or investigated any cases of fraud?</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Planning and Local Government</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2021-08-25" qonNum="707">
            <name>Volunteer Screening</name>
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        <text id="2021101289e0dc6d4c91463fa0002777">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning and Local Government):</by>  The Minister for Human Services has provided the following advice:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2021101289e0dc6d4c91463fa0002778">
          <inserted>Since delivering on the Marshall Liberal government’s election commitment of abolishing all screening fees for volunteers, 185,602 South Australians and organisations have not been forced to pay the $59.40 per screening they were required to pay under the previous Labor government. To date, no person has been found to be using a free screening as a worker.</inserted>
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