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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS (15:07): My question is to the Assistant Minister to the Premier regarding multicultural affairs. After struggling to answer the question yesterday, can the assistant minister now tell us exactly what additional resources she receives in her role as assistant minister, including, but not limited to, additional pay, additional office space, additional staff, access to departmental information or any other supports?

The Hon. J.S. LEE (15:08): I think there is some offensive language or opinion stated in that question, which I find a bit offensive. 'Struggling', for example.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. J.S. LEE: Standing order 193, sir.

The PRESIDENT: To be fair, I haven't heard anything that was in the question, other than there was a little bit of opinion, but compared to a number of other explanations, there was very little opinion. I ask the assistant minister to continue her answer.

The Hon. J.S. LEE: In terms of resourcing, I do have a 0.5 FTE, not really full-time allocated to me. The staffer is actually attached to the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is part of the resourcing from the Premier's office, not to me directly. In terms of the parliamentary secretary or resource in terms of pay, I think you can disclose that and find out as per the instructions of pays, and that is regularly available.

In terms of whether I have an office or not in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, I was allocated an office space initially, but due to COVID that office was then to be used as a rapid response unit and staffers moved into that office. Since then, I have not asked for the office to be returned to me for use because the majority of my meetings are conducted as and when the constituents or stakeholders need me to meet with them. Of course, during the COVID time, we had many Teams or Zoom meetings that did not require face-to-face contact and require my office to be permanently restored. I hope those answers satisfy the questions by the honourable members.

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