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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2018-08-01" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Ministerial Responsibility</name>
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        <heading>Ministerial Responsibility</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Leader of the Opposition</electorate>
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            <name>Ministerial Responsibility</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (15:13):</by>  Supplementary arising from the answer: in what document are these responsibilities, that the minister talks of, prescribed?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4362" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.S. LEE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2018-08-01">
            <name>Ministerial Responsibility</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-08-01T15:14:05" />
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          <by role="member" id="4362">The Hon. J.S. LEE (15:14):</by>  Earlier, the questions were about whether I have used my email for any official capacity as the Assistant Minister to the Premier—</text>
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        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER:</by>  Point of order, Mr President.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Hunter, what's your point of order?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER:</by>  The point of order is relevance, sir. The question was directed to the assistant minister's understanding of her responsibilities as a member of the executive, and the supplementary was specifically about what document has she read that will tell us where those portfolio responsibilities reside. She hasn't addressed that specific question about the document that says what her responsibilities are.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  I appreciate the point of order, but I am giving the Hon. Ms Lee some leeway, as you would a minister, to respond to the question. Your point of order came a little early in the equation. The Hon. Ms Lee.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.S. LEE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4362">The Hon. J.S. LEE:</by>  I have provided the answer.</text>
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