Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
2020-09-10 Daily Xml

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Integrity Care

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (15:37): Just like the minister believed her department about the Debelle protocols without even knowing what they were, how is the minister certain that the advice is correct?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (15:38): I am not sure what the honourable member expects me to do. Perhaps to sit in on every telephone call, check every email and check every last piece of correspondence within my department.

The Hon. D.W. Ridgway interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order on my right!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: The advice—

An honourable member interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: And on my left.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: —from my department is that there were several requests made by the department to double-check with any HACC providers that that was the case and that they followed all of those up.