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Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
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Chemotherapy Treatment Error

The Hon. J.S. LEE (14:55): Supplementary: given the minister's answers and given that it is more than two years since the bungle was exposed publicly and there has been enough time to do four major reports in relation to it, why do the disciplinary proceedings remain unresolved?

The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse) (14:55): If there are disciplinary proceedings occurring, the Hon. Ms Lee has asked a question that I have been asking myself. I think generally speaking when it comes to disciplinary proceedings that occur within government, sometimes they take too long and I think it would be in the interests of all concerned if we could have a more expeditious outcome of these matters sometimes.

That said, I'm certainly not going to be a minister who seeks to use my position of authority in such a way that prioritises expeditiousness over and above due process and results because the last thing I want to see happen here is me exercising a ministerial influence in a way that prejudices an outcome and then denies any relevant victims the outcome they are looking for—people being held to account. While I sympathise with the tone of the question from the honourable member, it doesn't change the fact that we are making and I am making very deliberate decisions around this matter to make sure we get the right outcome.

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