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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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SA Housing Authority

The Hon. J.E. HANSON (15:00): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Human Services regarding housing.

Leave granted.

The Hon. J.E. HANSON: When questioned about 16,307 illegal transactions yesterday, the minister said, and I quote, 'I am not remotely concerned about this matter.' My questions to the minister are:

1. Can the minister explain in detail why she is not remotely concerned about 16,307 criminal offences being committed on her watch?

2. What other criminal offending has the minister overseen that she is not remotely concerned with?

The PRESIDENT: The inference in the second part of that question I think the minister should ignore. But I will call the minister. I just ask the Hon. Mr Hanson to be careful in the way he phrases those questions. The minister has the call.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (15:02): I thank the honourable member for his question and do note that the Labor Party don't like maintenance being spent on our public housing system because they are always attacking some aspect of maintenance or other. Indeed, when they were in government they certainly reduced the maintenance budget on a regular—

The Hon. J.E. Hanson: Again, you are starting with when we were in government—you're in government!

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Hanson!

The Hon. J.E. Hanson: There will be an election shortly—

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. J.E. Hanson: —and you won't be anymore and you can come back and say that again.

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Hanson, order! Does the opposition wish to hear the answer? Then be silent.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: I do note the Labor Party love the sound of their own voices. As my colleague the Minister for Health and Wellbeing noted, they love to ask a question but they don't want to hear the answer because they like to talk for themselves, so they might want to get their own YouTube channel and then they can talk to themselves because nobody else is really interested in listening to them.

Variations not approved in accordance with Treasurer's Instruction 8 would have been subject to a robust control environment, including an agreed schedule of rates, as all work is carried out by a multitrade contractor, as per an agreed schedule of rates for maintenance services; and deduction and abatement rights if an authorised purchase order for maintenance services under a multitrade contractor was identified. The payment structure under the multitrade contractors is such that the authority is contractually entitled to make a deduction or abatement from future payments to the relevant multitrade contractor to offset the unauthorised maintenance services.

In terms of compliance audits, in order to verify compliance with the terms of the multitrade contractors and to mitigate the risk of unauthorised purchase orders being issued, random audits are conducted by the authority on maintenance service purchase orders on a periodic basis.

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