Legislative Council - Fifty-First Parliament, Second Session (51-2)
2008-07-03 Daily Xml

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Personal Explanation

CHILDREN IN STATE CARE INQUIRY

The Hon. CARMEL ZOLLO (Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Road Safety, Minister Assisting the Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (15:56): I seek leave to make a personal explanation.

Leave granted.

The Hon. CARMEL ZOLLO: On Tuesday during the Estimates Committee hearing, I answered a question from the member for Kavel from the other place about recommendation No.13 made in the Children in State Care Inquiry. I said that this was still subject to cabinet consideration. Both the Chief Executive of the Department for Correctional Services and I thought that the honourable member was referring to the children of the APY lands inquiry, also undertaken by Mr Mullighan, and I answered the question accordingly.

An error was brought to my attention during question time today by an honourable member and I am seeking the earliest opportunity to correct the record. My reply to the honourable member's question during question time today is an accurate response with regard to recommendation No. 13 of Commissioner Mullighan's inquiry into children in state care.