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Correctional Services Monitoring Device Outage

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (13:30): Supplementary question: who conducted the review the minister is referring to in his answer?

The Hon. V.A. Chapman interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Deputy Premier is warned. Minister.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (13:30): Thank you very much. As I just outlined, Telstra have given us their assessment of what happened there and the department worked through that, reviewing the process and coming up with output to make sure that we get a better service. As I outlined to the leader—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, members on my left!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: —when he was in the chair and there were similar—

The Hon. J.A.W. Gardner interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, Minister for Education!

The Hon. S.S. Marshall interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Premier will not interject. The Minister has the call. I am trying to listen to his answer.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: As I outlined before, when the Leader of the Opposition was in the chair and there were similar outages, I don't know whether he reviewed the situation or not. We did and we have addressed that there was an issue. I reiterate that issue now: there wasn't a redundancy built into the bracelets. Other states have got more redundancy; we don't.

We are in a procurement process now to get more redundancy built into that bracelet so that we have a system that has extra redundancy in it, is better than it was before and is better than the system that we inherited. I also made the point—I think in my ministerial statement—and I stress the point again: this system must have a number of redundancies to it. Building in more technical capability and technical redundancy is a real positive, but we also have to make sure that we have those physical redundancies in place through the phone calls, through actually going out and contacting people, and bringing more staff on board.

I want to commend the DCS staff who worked over the weekend to actually deliver that output. It was done very well, with great success, and it was great to be in constant contact with them right over the weekend. I think the member for Kaurna asked where I was. I'm not sure if he wants me to go out and actually knock on the doors myself or leave it to the experts. The member for Lee clearly—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The minister will be seated for one moment. The Minister for Energy, the member for Playford, the member for Lee, the Minister for Education and the Premier are all called to order. The minister has the call.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: I won't respond to the member for Lee's interjection asking where I was in the media, but what I will say is that I think I did a press conference on the Sunday. It was a good press conference, so you should watch the evening news, member for Lee, as you prattle away. I did do a media conference on the Sunday.

I know the member for Lee is probably better looking than me and when he does a press conference they probably like to use his pretty face more than they do mine, but I did do it with the Premier and with the CE of Corrections. A couple of the media used my grabs and a couple of the media took responses from the Premier and the CE of Corrections. The fact that the member for Lee is better looking than me is just something that I am going to have to live with.

I didn't reference him specifically in my radio interview on the Monday morning, but when I was requested to do a radio interview on FIVEaa, I was more than happy to do it. I didn't get a phone call from the ABC; I got a phone call from FIVEaa and I responded to that phone call. I was very happy to do it and point out the actions we are taking to fix the mess we were left with and make sure we get a better system for South Australia.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Reynell is called to order. The member for Elder.

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