<!--The Official Report of Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia are covered by parliamentary privilege. Republication by others is not afforded the same protection and may result in exposure to legal liability if the material is defamatory. You may copy and make use of excerpts of proceedings where (1) you attribute the Parliament as the source, (2) you assume the risk of liability if the manner of your use is defamatory, (3) you do not use the material for the purpose of advertising, satire or ridicule, or to misrepresent members of Parliament, and (4) your use of the extracts is fair, accurate and not misleading. Copyright in the Official Report of Parliamentary Debates is held by the Attorney-General of South Australia.-->
<hansard id="" tocId="" xml:lang="EN-AU" schemaVersion="1.0" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2007/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="hansard_1_0.xsd">
  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-05-26" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
  <venue></venue>
  <reviewStage>published</reviewStage>
  <startPage num="3567" />
  <endPage num="3616" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Disability Services</name>
      <text id="20210526572ea3fb84274b6590000147">
        <heading>Disability Services</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4867" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.T. NGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2021-05-26">
            <name>Disability Services</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2021-05-26T14:56:49" />
        <text id="20210526572ea3fb84274b6590000148">
          <timeStamp time="2021-05-26T14:56:49" />
          <by role="member" id="4867">The Hon. T.T. NGO (14:56):</by>  Can the minister explain how complaints are handled against state-run disability services? Do they go via the Quality and Safeguards Commission or does the department simply make judgements?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Human Services</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2021-05-26">
            <name>Disability Services</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2021-05-26T14:57:03" />
        <text id="20210526572ea3fb84274b6590000149">
          <timeStamp time="2021-05-26T14:57:03" />
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:57):</by>  We have a range of ways to respond to things. In the first instance, staff members should raise things with management. I think I probably have actually outlined these—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. Maher</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210526572ea3fb84274b6590000150">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  If they are not staff members?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210526572ea3fb84274b6590000151">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <page num="3576" />
        <text id="20210526572ea3fb84274b6590000152">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  —matters in some detail in the past, but I am happy to repeat them for the benefit of the honourable member. Any matters which relate to a particular site should be raised with the staff. The staff raise them to management. Depending on the nature of their particular complaint, the matter may be raised as a critical incident or not. I have outlined those details in great detail in the past for the benefit of members in this place and I would refer them to have another look at what I have said in the past.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210526572ea3fb84274b6590000153">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Leader of the Opposition has a supplementary.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
</hansard>