House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
2018-05-16 Daily Xml

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Grandparents for Grandchildren SA

Ms STINSON (Badcoe) (14:41): A supplementary, Mr Speaker—

The SPEAKER: A supplementary.

The Hon. S.K. Knoll: She wants to dig deeper.

The SPEAKER: The member for Schubert is called to order.

Ms STINSON: —has the Minister for Child Protection received about six requests from Grandparents for Grandchildren to meet with her?

The Hon. R. SANDERSON (Adelaide—Minister for Child Protection) (14:41): As I stated in my—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, members on my right! The minister will be heard in silence. Minister.

The Hon. R. SANDERSON: As I stated in my previous answer, because of the tender process that was entered into by the former government, it was inappropriate, while that process was underway, for me to meet with either of the two people who had put in tenders. I was waiting for the department to make a decision, and for that decision to be made public, before I could meet with either so as not to jeopardise a tender process.