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CAVAN TRAINING CENTRE

Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart) (15:54): My question is for the Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion. Can the minister guarantee that neither the censored first report nor the second withheld report found that the budget cuts made to the Cavan Training Centre played any part in the February 2012 escapes?

The SPEAKER: Well, that assumes that they were censored. I presume there is a foundation of fact for that claim. The Minister for Communities.

The Hon. A. PICCOLO (Light—Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion, Minister for Social Housing, Minister for Disabilities, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteers) (14:54): I am advised that as a result of the breakout of eight people from the centre there were two inquiries held. The first inquiry, which was undertaken by the Department of Correctional Services, looked at all the securities, and all of the recommendations from that report were accepted by the government and implemented by the government to ensure the security of people in this state. The second report, which you refer to, which is a report which deals with staffing matters, addressed specifically the issue of whether any person wilfully or through misconduct contributed to the release of those people from the centre. That report concluded quite clearly that there was no misconduct or wilful behaviour on any person working at the facility. As a result, that report was not made public. There was nothing to be gained from that. Nowhere in the reports I have read is there anything to indicate that budget cuts were the cause.

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