Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2015-06-17 Daily Xml

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Vocational Education and Training

The Hon. R.L. BROKENSHIRE (15:00): By way of supplementary question, based on the minister's answer: if TAFE already has the capacity to deliver training in the regions, why does the chief executive officer say that TAFE is 'busy scouting community and industry facilities in order to find somewhere where they would possibly deliver training'?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (15:00): The honourable member comes in this place time and again, quoting all sorts of inaccurate sources. TAFE SA (and I have also put this on the record in this place before)—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! The minister has the floor.

The Hon. G.E. GAGO: TAFE SA has indicated that it has the capacity to fulfil the training allocations that have been prescribed to it for 2015-16. It has indicated that it can do that and it has the capacity to do that. It has a range of different arrangements in place involving various partners, particularly in niche areas, and no doubt it will continue those sorts of arrangements into the future.