North-South Corridor

Mr TARZIA (Hartley) (14:35): My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Did the chief executive of the department advise the minister that Ms Fueyo Suarez was no longer a suitable person to hold her position?

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Minister for Energy and Mining) (14:35): No, he did not put it in those terms to me. My recollection of the conversation was that that executive director was no longer employed by the department, but I will get a more fulsome answer. I don't think we are into humiliating people or making them feel as if they have been turfed out, so I am cautious about what I say in the chamber because it is covered by parliamentary privilege and it can defame people, and that is unfair. Of course, we must be responsible with parliamentary privilege, as I always have been.