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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2018-12-06" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Strathmont Pool</name>
      <text id="20181206261726eb89784498a0000356">
        <heading>Strathmont Pool</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5413" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. E.S. BOURKE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2018-12-06">
            <name>Strathmont Pool</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-12-06T14:37:33" />
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          <by role="member" id="5413">The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (14:37):</by>  Supplementary: if the minister is suggesting that our actions are undermining the safety of clients, therefore wouldn't your own colleague be undermining the safety of clients?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Human Services</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2018-12-06">
            <name>Strathmont Pool</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-12-06T14:37:45" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:37):</by>  In the context of what I said, it is undermining the work of the Department of Human Services, which has been working for—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5413">The Hon. E.S. Bourke interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  No, what I'm talking about, if I am allowed to answer this—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! The minister deserves to be heard in silence.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  My department has been working with the user groups for months and months and months on finding alternatives. Specific members of the Labor Party—I will name them: the member for West Torrens, the member for Hurtle Vale—have undermined the good work of the Department of Human Services.</text>
        <text id="20181206261726eb89784498a0000364">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20181206261726eb89784498a0000365">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  The best interests of the children and all the people with disabilities who use the Strathmont pool is for those alternatives to be provided, which is what the department has been working towards, and that is my only interest in this debate.</text>
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