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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-06-04" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Human Services Screening Unit</name>
      <text id="20200604ad6c5678b47d4904b0000039">
        <heading>Human Services Screening Unit</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="2020-06-04">
            <name>Human Services Screening Unit</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-06-04T14:26:24" />
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:26):</by>  Supplementary arising from the original answer: can the minister outline why and on what advice she relies upon that she cannot speak about how screenings work generally and about whether there have been screenings submitted from a particular company and how that would compromise an investigation?</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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        <questions>
          <question date="2020-06-04">
            <name>Human Services Screening Unit</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-06-04T14:26:38" />
        <text id="20200604ad6c5678b47d4904b0000041">
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:26):</by>  I have already outlined to the chamber about how screenings work in some detail in response to a question yesterday. These matters are currently under investigation—</text>
        <text id="20200604ad6c5678b47d4904b0000042">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:</event>
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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>  Not how screenings work, and I spoke about that yesterday. In relation to the specific—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20200604ad6c5678b47d4904b0000045">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
        <text id="20200604ad6c5678b47d4904b0000046">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="599">The Hon. J.S.L. Dawkins interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20200604ad6c5678b47d4904b0000047">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</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>  There are specific matters which are under investigation by the federal regulator, by SA police. The DHS screening unit is closely working with those investigative agents, and therefore I am not able to comment further—full stop.</text>
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