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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 419 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 16 June 2020 by Mr P.A. Katsambanis

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

SUBCONTRACTORS — PAYMENT SECURITY

419. Mr P.A. KATSAMBANIS to the Minister for Commerce:

Before I ask my supplementary, I seek some form of clarification. Did the minister not hear the question or was that his answer to the question?

Several members interjected.

Mr P.A. KATSAMBANIS: I will then ask a supplementary. Why did the minister quietly dump this broken election to subcontractors in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis simply to avoid public scrutiny?

Mr J.R. QUIGLEY replied:

As I have stated previously, I do not understand the basis of the question. We have not dumped subcontractors at all. As the member will see from public statements, trust is required in an economic and efficient way when resolving disputes, otherwise money will be held up in the trust. First of all, we had to deal with the west coast model and bring it into line with the eastern states model of security of payment legislation, which will soon be before the Parliament. We have not dumped anything. We have to do it in stages—simple.

The SPEAKER: That is the end of question time, members.