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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2015-03-18" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>TAFE SA</name>
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        <heading>TAFE SA</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Leader of the Opposition</electorate>
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          <question date="2015-03-18">
            <name>TAFE SA</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-03-18T14:25:10" />
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:25):</by>  Final supplementary: will the minister commit to asking her agency for a breakdown of why the fees have gone up 476 per cent and supply that to the chamber?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1821" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-03-18">
            <name>TAFE SA</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-03-18T14:25:22" />
        <text id="2015031808d72fc892a1403fb0000032">
          <timeStamp time="2015-03-18T14:25:22" />
          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (14:25):</by>  Mr President, the Hon. David Ridgway is just lazy; he is just a lazy, lazy opposition spokesperson. Bone lazy and bone idle, that's what he is. He knows that it would be relevant to direct those questions to the TAFE board. These are operational matters, and it is completely inappropriate for me to interfere in day-to-day operational matters.</text>
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        <text id="2015031808d72fc892a1403fb0000033">The Hon. David Ridgway knows that and he is so bone lazy he can't even get off his backside and pick up the phone or write an email to TAFE SA and request information around these matters. That's how lazy he is—bone lazy. He wants to be spoon fed; he wants someone to go and get that information for him and bring it back. Well, Mr President, it is an abuse of this chamber. It is an abuse of each and every one of us and our important time.</text>
        <text id="2015031808d72fc892a1403fb0000034">The responsibility lies with the board of TAFE SA; they are responsible for the day-to-day operational matters. I have, on several occasions, invited honourable members who have got queries or questions, or want information or advice, to approach TAFE SA directly, as they should be doing.</text>
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