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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-08-28T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Administration of Grants</name>
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      <text id="20240828a8a58887556a460180000048">
        <heading>Administration of Grants</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2024-08-28T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Administration of Grants</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:28):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation prior to addressing a question to the Attorney-General regarding ICAC reporting.</text>
        <text id="20240828a8a58887556a460180000050">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI:</by>  An ICAC report entitled 'Evaluation of grants administration' found that an administrative error resulted in a $1 million grant being awarded to a company which had not entered a grant application. Our understanding is that the company had to submit a grant application retrospectively. My questions to the Attorney-General are:</text>
        <text id="20240828a8a58887556a460180000052">1.&amp;#x9;When was the Attorney-General made aware of this significant so-called administrative error?</text>
        <text id="20240828a8a58887556a460180000053">2.&amp;#x9;Is the Attorney-General aware of any other administrative errors in the awarding of grants since his government has come to office?</text>
        <text id="20240828a8a58887556a460180000054">3.&amp;#x9;Will the government commit to auditing all recently awarded grants for any other so-called administrative errors?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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        <startTime time="2024-08-28T14:29:09+09:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (14:29):</by>  I'm happy to answer this very simply. I made a pretty extensive ministerial statement about this yesterday, and I refer the honourable member to that.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  This is question time, not conversation time.</text>
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