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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 107 asked in the Legislative Council on 12 May 2021 by Hon Colin De Grussa

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

CORONAVIRUS — HOTEL QUARANTINE — STAFF

107. Hon COLIN de GRUSSA to the minister representing the Minister for Health:

I refer to the issue of hotel quarantine staff being banned from working second jobs.

(1) Which agency holds the contracts with companies undertaking hotel quarantine work?

(2) Which agency is responsible for implementing the signing of statutory declarations by hotel quarantine staff?

(3) At what stage in their employment at hotel quarantine sites are staff required to sign the statutory declaration?

(4) What monitoring and reporting processes are in place to ensure that hotel quarantine staff are not working second jobs?

Hon Tjorn Sibma interjected.

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:

Hon Tjorn Sibma can give the answer if he wants to!

The PRESIDENT: That is ambition, minister.

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON: Hon Tjorn Sibma is trying to take my job!

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question.

(1) The Department of Health holds contracts in relation to security and transport services.

(2) None.

(3) Staff are required to sign a statutory declaration within seven days of commencing employment and to make a declaration at each pay cycle thereafter.

(4) The Department of Health receives a statutory declaration from each hotel with each invoice, declaring that a copy of individual statutory declarations and updated declarations at each pay cycle have been received.