Public Housing

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:29): Further supplementary: minister, do you have a threshold as to what sort of problems from public housing your department actually tell you about, or have you asked not to be told about any of them?

The PRESIDENT: I will allow the minister to respond. It was pretty tenuous to the original answer.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:30): As I said, we have some 200,000 taskings a year. If the honourable member thinks I should be briefed on all of those, then I don't know what he thinks we have a system for.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: There are various matters that people will raise with me from time to time, and we get them resolved very quickly.