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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-06-02" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Disability Services</name>
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        <heading>Disability Services</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2020-06-02">
            <name>Disability Services</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (15:28):</by>  Supplementary arising from the original answer in relation to the role of the Principal Community Visitor: do the obligations and operations of the Principal Community Visitor form any part of the terms of reference of the task force that is going to respond very quickly to these matters?</text>
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      <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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          <question date="2020-06-02">
            <name>Disability Services</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-06-02T15:29:21" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (15:29):</by>  My understanding of the way the task force is going to operate is that it broadly has terms of reference which are going to look at all oversight matters.</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 Hon. Ms Bourke, the question wasn't asked of you. Minister, continue.</text>
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        <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 question that I have—</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>  Sit down, minister. Are you finished, the Hon. Ms Bourke? Minister.</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>
        <text id="202006021dd2e8f4b8684b6e80000295">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  The question that I have asked the task force to look at is what gaps in oversight exist through a whole range of systems. I fully expect that they will consider a whole range of matters because there will be a whole range of people who will make submissions to the task force. They may well come up with a whole range of recommendations on a whole range of areas. I am not seeking to limit them in any way.</text>
        <text id="202006021dd2e8f4b8684b6e80000296">As I spoke about previously, I have had a lot of comments from people, personal telephone calls, emails, and a whole range of other ways in which people have contacted me and raised a range of concerns about systemic issues. What we have done is provide all that detail about the task force in terms of the fact that they can potentially look at a whole range of these issues. I do not wish to limit the scope of the task force because there are a range of systemic issues across the system that are contributing to gaps in safeguarding. They may reside within particular acts of parliament or they may well be community responses. I am looking forward to receiving that advice from the task force.</text>
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