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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-06-04T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Parliamentary Executive Salary Increases</name>
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        <heading>Parliamentary Executive Salary Increases</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5418" referenceid="e7b583be01404e74b438589370882e1d" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. C. BONAROS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2024-06-04T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Parliamentary Executive Salary Increases</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5418" referenceid="e7b583be01404e74b438589370882e1d">The Hon. C. BONAROS (15:21):</by>  I seek leave to ask a question of you regarding questions.</text>
        <text id="2024060419b130ae50244bb1a0000404">Leave granted.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5418" referenceid="e7b583be01404e74b438589370882e1d" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. C. BONAROS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="5418" referenceid="e7b583be01404e74b438589370882e1d">The Hon. C. BONAROS:</by>  Mr President, on 19 March I asked you a question regarding processes for remuneration determinations as follows:</text>
        <text id="2024060419b130ae50244bb1a0000406">1.&amp;#x9;Can you outline for the benefit of all members in this chamber how that decision was made and by whom in each respective chamber?</text>
        <text id="2024060419b130ae50244bb1a0000407">2.&amp;#x9;Can you indicate what role, if any at all, the JPSC had in those determinations?</text>
        <text id="2024060419b130ae50244bb1a0000408">3.&amp;#x9;Do you consider it appropriate for this chamber to find out about the pay increases months after the fact and only as a result of the tabling of the Auditor-General's report and despite there being reporting mechanisms available to presiding officers for such reporting?</text>
        <text id="2024060419b130ae50244bb1a0000409">4.&amp;#x9;Will you and your counterpart, the Speaker, now be reporting to members of this place on the process undertaken in respect of this matter, including details of any reviews and the decisions that those determinations were based on?</text>
        <text continued="true" id="2024060419b130ae50244bb1a0000410">At the time, you indicated to me, Mr President, that I hadn't followed the convention of prior notice, and the question was taken on notice. It is now 4 June, well beyond the 30-day time frame government gives itself to respond to questions, and my question to you is: are you now in a position to provide a response to this chamber, or when can this chamber expect a response to those four issues outlined?</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <startTime time="2024-06-04T15:23:08+09:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="1819" referenceid="00519d5d167e455895592b2c658062a6">The PRESIDENT (15:23):</by>  Thanks for your question. Again, you have failed to follow the convention of informing my office that there is going to be a question to the President. However, I do believe that we may have an answer prepared and I will endeavour to deliver that this week.</text>
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