House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)
2014-08-06 Daily Xml

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Emergency Services

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (14:52): My question is to the Minister for Emergency Services. Will the MFS, CFS and SES chief officers be sacked under the model described to volunteers by the minister at the Hahndorf meeting on the Holloway review?

The SPEAKER: I trust that is not meant to be a supplementary? Minister

The Hon. A. PICCOLO (Light—Minister for Disabilities, Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety) (14:53): I thank the honourable member for his question. At the Hahndorf meeting you said?

Dr McFETRIDGE: Yes.

The Hon. A. PICCOLO: That's right; given that you were there. At the presentation I gave at Hahndorf as in other places, including Port Lincoln—which were open to the public and members of the Liberal Party attended and were able to photograph and take all the information they required away to talk to their communities, including people in the electorate of Hammond who have come to these meetings—I indicated, not only at that forum but at other forums, that should the concept which I am engaging with the community about go ahead, it will be clear that at the moment I have four chief executives in the emergency services sector—and if that model went ahead there would be one, and that four would not go into three. Four wouldn't go into one, sorry.

An honourable member interjecting:

The Hon. A. PICCOLO: No, it is not a yes, and I did not say that. What I said was, clearly, four wouldn't go into one and there would be a process to fill the new position.

The SPEAKER: Supplementary, member for Morphett.