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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-05-26" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Disability Services</name>
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        <heading>Disability Services</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="2021-05-26">
            <name>Disability Services</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:58):</by>  If someone has a complaint against a staff member, where do they go in the first instance to raise that complaint, given that the minister says the only avenue is initially with potentially that staff member they are complaining of?</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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          <question date="2021-05-26">
            <name>Disability Services</name>
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:58):</by>  I thank the honourable member for his supplementary question. I think I may have heard him say in a disorderly manner when I was responding to the previous question that I put—</text>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. Maher</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  It's out of order to respond to interjections.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  And you are out of order too.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210526747a19cb3d65441f80000159">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  —words in people's mouths. I think he has just done that to me. The management of that particular site can take those complaints. There is a management structure within the department that people can also take things through. I am also more than happy to take individual queries from people if they wish to contact my office, so there are many different avenues that people can take. They will all be triaged in the same manner and be managed appropriately.</text>
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