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  <date date="2020-09-23" />
  <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="5244" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.E. HANSON</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2020-09-23">
            <name>Disability Services</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-09-23T15:19:24" />
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          <by role="member" id="5244">The Hon. J.E. HANSON (15:19):</by>  Has the minister assured herself that the Incident Management Unit is properly resourced in the wake of the deaths of Annie Smith and Debbie Pearce?</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="2020-09-23">
            <name>Disability Services</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-09-23T15:19:37" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (15:19):</by>  There have been a lot of conversations within government about critical incidents. The honourable member has referred to Ann Marie Smith and I just need to remind members that she wasn't actually a client of ours, she was a client of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The appropriate oversight body for quality and safeguarding for her was the NDIS Commission or the Quality and Safeguards Commission.</text>
        <text id="20200923059e11615d2041a9a0000324">I have confidence that the Incident Management Unit has the appropriate HR resources. We have conducted an external review to ensure that the standards and levels are as they should be. I am quite confident that it is a robust system, but we believe in systems improvements and so that is currently being conducted and will be implemented as appropriate.</text>
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