Ms FYLES - 2013-05-16
You have cut child protection funding in your budget. Your budget papers show 6000 reports of child abuse will not be investigated next year. This is in Budget Paper No 3, page 254. which shows child protection reports increased to 10 000 yet investigations are down to 4000 - less than half. Only 40% of child abuse reports will be investigated under your government’s cuts. Why have you decided not to investigate 6000 child abuse reports?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Nightcliff for her question. She did not have an impact in this House with her motion last night. One of the things I said last night was she was a senior advisor to the former minister and is still reading off the script. She should be speaking off the cuff on this issue. Member for Nightcliff, shame on you!
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Standing Order 113: relevance. Answer the question rather than making a personal attack on the member for Nightcliff.
Madam SPEAKER: Thank you, Opposition Leader. Minister, you have the call.
Ms ANDERSON: It is so good to be in government and see you popping up every five minutes, Leader of the Opposition. You no longer have the power in this House. Territorians voted on 25 August, across the whole of the Northern Territory, to put you on the other side, and it is a fantastic result.
Ms FYLES: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance, 113. Why will 6000 child abuse reports go un-investigated?
Madam SPEAKER: Minister, you have the call.
Ms Walker:: Come on, King Brown, answer that one.
Ms ANDERSON: Absolutely beautiful.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Nhulunbuy, withdraw that comment please.
Ms WALKER: I withdraw.
Ms ANDERSON: Madam Speaker, I am not offended by that.
Yesterday’s media releases and the figures used from OCF added $9m. You should understand us. We moved youth justice and Women’s Policy out of OCF.
You are not reading your budget papers properly, member for Nightcliff. You need to come to the hard knocks on this side of the County Liberal Party where they can teach you to read the budget papers. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker!
Madam SPEAKER: I believe the minister has finished.
Ms LAWRIE: She did not answer the question about 6000 cases going un-investigated.
Madam SPEAKER: There is no point of order.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Nightcliff for her question. She did not have an impact in this House with her motion last night. One of the things I said last night was she was a senior advisor to the former minister and is still reading off the script. She should be speaking off the cuff on this issue. Member for Nightcliff, shame on you!
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Standing Order 113: relevance. Answer the question rather than making a personal attack on the member for Nightcliff.
Madam SPEAKER: Thank you, Opposition Leader. Minister, you have the call.
Ms ANDERSON: It is so good to be in government and see you popping up every five minutes, Leader of the Opposition. You no longer have the power in this House. Territorians voted on 25 August, across the whole of the Northern Territory, to put you on the other side, and it is a fantastic result.
Ms FYLES: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance, 113. Why will 6000 child abuse reports go un-investigated?
Madam SPEAKER: Minister, you have the call.
Ms Walker:: Come on, King Brown, answer that one.
Ms ANDERSON: Absolutely beautiful.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Nhulunbuy, withdraw that comment please.
Ms WALKER: I withdraw.
Ms ANDERSON: Madam Speaker, I am not offended by that.
Yesterday’s media releases and the figures used from OCF added $9m. You should understand us. We moved youth justice and Women’s Policy out of OCF.
You are not reading your budget papers properly, member for Nightcliff. You need to come to the hard knocks on this side of the County Liberal Party where they can teach you to read the budget papers. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker!
Madam SPEAKER: I believe the minister has finished.
Ms LAWRIE: She did not answer the question about 6000 cases going un-investigated.
Madam SPEAKER: There is no point of order.
Last updated: 09 Aug 2016