Page 3964 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 5 December 2007
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result of the failed or flawed structure, which the Liberal Party supports, for the management of emergency services. They are a precise example. The issues in relation to FireLink are perhaps a precise example.
Mr Seselja: It is our fault you stuffed it up!
MR STANHOPE: Well, I must say that issues in relation to emergency services are very much the fault of the Liberal Party in government. There is absolutely no doubt. I have once again heard Mr Corbell—
Mr Seselja: FireLink is our fault?
MR STANHOPE: To some extent, a whole range of issues in relation to emergency services and emergency services capacity are a direct result—
Mr Pratt: You guys couldn’t run a chook raffle so you blame us.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Pratt!
MR STANHOPE: Many of the failings in relation to infrastructure and capacity that were previously experienced are a direct result of seven years of running down of emergency services by the Liberal Party in government. There is absolutely no doubt about that. There was a complete refusal to deal with issues around communication.
Mrs Dunne: Point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR STANHOPE: You know that; you all know that.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, resume your seat.
Mrs Dunne: My point of order is under standing order 118 (b). The question related to the installation and procurement of FireLink in 2004 and 2005. Therefore the minister needs to confine his comments to that period.
MR SPEAKER: Come to the subject matter of the supplementary question, Chief Minister.
MR STANHOPE: Mr Speaker, I was. I was talking about the explanations that have been made ad nauseam in this place by the minister, Mr Corbell, in relation to the issues around FireLink. Certainly there were a range of issues in relation to process, in retrospect, as fully explained by Mr Corbell and as otherwise exposed in relation to procurement—the failure to test and to do the level of due diligence that was quite obviously necessary and required. Many of those failings were almost exclusively a result of failings in management within the Emergency Services Bureau at the time, as a result of an administrative structure which you continue to favour, you continue to support. You cannot have it both ways.
Mr Seselja: It’s our fault you have put it in! You put it in; it didn’t work; you didn’t oversight it. And that’s our fault!
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