Page 3266 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 21 August 2019
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Mr Rattenbury: Madam Speaker, on the point of order. I think that the opposition regularly reinterprets ministers’ comments. If Mrs Jones’s point of order is to stand, we will spend a lot of time in this chamber dealing with standing order 47.
Mrs Jones: Madam Speaker, I ask to speak to the point of order.
MADAM SPEAKER: No, resume your seat Mrs Jones. I repeat: resume your seat. Standing order 47 does not apply to this because it goes to a point of a debate. There is no debate; it is question time.
Mrs Jones: Standing order 46?
MADAM SPEAKER: It is 47. For 46 you can stand if you like at the end of question time.
MRS JONES: Minister, when did you first become aware of this incident and what briefing, if any, did you have on the subsequent process?
MR GENTLEMAN: I think the first time I became aware was from reports in the press. I have not been briefed in specificity by ACT Policing about this particular incident. As I said, it is an operational matter. I have full confidence in ACT Policing resolving the matter and I have full confidence in ACT Policing as a whole. I think they do a fantastic job for the ACT.
Madam Speaker, you would have noticed that crime statistics for the ACT have been dropping across the forward program. That shows that the resources that we are providing for ACT police are taken up and are being used and crime is trending down.
MR PARTON: Minister, have you received any briefing on this matter? Has it been mentioned in any briefing, and is this the standard of behaviour that you accept as the minister in charge of law and order here in the ACT?
MR GENTLEMAN: I am the Minister for Police and Emergency Services. In regard to law and order, I am not sure if I can take that cudgel up. However, I have not received any specific briefing about this matter.
Disability services—justice strategy
MR GUPTA: My question is to the Minister for Disability. Minister, what will the recently released disability justice strategy and action plan mean for Canberrans with disability?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Mr Gupta for the question. The aim of the disability justice strategy for the ACT, of course, is to ensure that all people with disability are treated equally before the law, have equal access to justice and that their rights are upheld.
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