Early Intervention Research Directorate

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:40): Supplementary: can the minister explain why a briefing request from the opposition last year on the EIRD was refused by the minister, that briefing being requested in writing in October 2020?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:40): I think the general practice of briefings is that, out of courtesy, at the start of each term members of the opposition are provided with a briefing across the department. I have received so many requests for briefings from my shadow counterpart that I have lost count of them all. Some of them are quite ridiculous, and she wants to ask for sensitive information which, on that basis, I have not provided to her because she has demonstrated that she does not take care with confidential information.