Homelessness Services

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:25): Will homelessness providers need to spend money, that should be spent on frontline services, to resolve these legal and process questions that the government should have fixed before this whole process began?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:25): I think the honourable member has made several assumptions in the line of her questioning, which is that the government should have perhaps funded organisations to install certain systems. We don't make those decisions on their behalf. They are organisational decisions as to what systems they choose to use, but clearly we need to have alignment across the system into the future so that the information is more consistent and that there is greater transparency in the system. However, as I said, I think it is premature for us to try to articulate what it should look like before the tenders have even been opened.

The PRESIDENT: Supplementary question, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.