Committees
Integrity and Oversight Committee
Membership
Lizzie BLANDTHORN (Western Metropolitan – Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers, Minister for Child Protection and Family Services) (09:38): I move, by leave:
That Ms Payne be a member of the Integrity and Oversight Committee.
David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (09:38): The Integrity and Oversight Committee is a very important committee of this Parliament, and I think it is a good thing that an additional member goes onto that committee. The committee certainly needs significant work, and we know that the committee did not perform well in the last Parliament. We know that there was interference in the work of the committee. We know that the feed was cut. We know that the letter from Mr Redlich has not been circulated and should have been, and we know that he pointed directly to a series of very, very serious issues with the functioning of that committee. There is no question that that committee needs significant work. It needs to undertake its work in a way that is transparent and open. It needs to hold hearings, and it needs to get to the bottom of many of the issues that have been laid out.
Motion agreed to.