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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2012-07-20" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>52</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>SafeWork SA</name>
      <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000168">
        <heading>SAFEWORK SA</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3404" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.A. DARLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2012-07-20">
            <name>SAFEWORK SA</name>
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        <startTime time="2012-07-20T15:05:00" />
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          <timeStamp time="2012-07-20T15:05:00" />
          <by role="member" id="3404">The Hon. J.A. DARLEY (15:05): </by> I have six questions to the Minister for Industrial Relations with regard to SafeWork SA.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <page num="1890" />
        <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000170">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  You'll need six days.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3125" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. R.P. Wortley</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000171">
          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. Wortley: </by> I just answered that, surely?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3404">
        <name>The Hon. J.A. DARLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000172">
          <by role="member" id="3404">The Hon. J.A. DARLEY: </by> Yes, but the other six are the ones I want to hear the answers to.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000173">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Are you seeking to make an explanation?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3404">
        <name>The Hon. J.A. DARLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000174">
          <by role="member" id="3404">The Hon. J.A. DARLEY: </by> No. My questions to the minister are:</text>
        <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000175">1.&amp;#x9;Apart from the 94 FTEs the minister has just mentioned about the inspectorial staff of SafeWork SA, what is the total complement of other staff within SafeWork SA, and in particular the policy division?</text>
        <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000176">2.&amp;#x9;I understand that SafeWork SA plans to reduce its motor vehicle fleet by about 30 per cent as part of a budget reduction measure. Can the minister provide details of this and how SafeWork SA identified that it could still effectively manage its workload with this reduction?</text>
        <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000177">3.&amp;#x9;Will the minister also provide details about whether vehicles used by SafeWork SA inspectors have been included in this cut and how the inspectors' investigation branch or response team will be impacted by these cuts?</text>
        <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000178">4.&amp;#x9;Will vehicles provided to SafeWork SA executive level staff be available for use by inspectorial staff?</text>
        <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000179">5.&amp;#x9;Can the minister advise whether there are any other budgetary savings likely to impact the number of inspectorial staff?</text>
        <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000180">6.&amp;#x9;Does the minister anticipate an increase in numbers of inspectors should the Work Health and Safety Bill pass and, if so, has this been factored into the 2012-13 budget for SafeWork SA?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3125" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for State/Local Government Relations</electorate>
        <startTime time="2012-07-20T15:06:00" />
        <text id="20120720908317eeabc24bea90000181">
          <timeStamp time="2012-07-20T15:06:00" />
          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for State/Local Government Relations) (15:06): </by> I would like to thank the member for his very important six questions. These issues naturally are dealt with through SafeWork SA. These questions will be given to SafeWork SA. Before that we will talk to you, anyway, in regard to other issues. I will have the answers for all those questions in the near future, and I will also put them on notice and get answers back for the parliament.</text>
      </talker>
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