Legislative Council - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
2012-07-19 Daily Xml

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SALARY SACRIFICING

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (14:30): Supplementary question arising out of the minister's non-answer.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! The Hon. Mr Lucas has a supplementary.

The Hon. G.E. Gago interjecting:

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: Even with your incompetence you couldn't support that.

The PRESIDENT: Order! The Hon. Mr Lucas should ask his question.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: I cannot hear myself, Mr President. I am being heckled.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: Mr President, I am being heckled. This is terrible.

The PRESIDENT: Order! Let us get on with it. The Hon. Mr Lucas.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: As my colleague says, dumb is defending dumber in this particular case. My supplementary question arising out of the minister's non-answer is: is the minister standing by the statement he made yesterday that these fraudulent activities commenced some years prior to McMillan Shakespeare's acquisition of RemServ in 2004?

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for State/Local Government Relations) (14:31): I have given a response. I think the important issue out of this is that Maxxia has very good processes in place that will make sure that every financial transaction and everything that goes on with salary sacrificing will be transparent, and any hint of any fraud will be picked up through their compliance measures.