Thursday, 22 February 2024

Questions without notice and ministers statements

Melbourne medically supervised injecting facility

Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (11:54): (430) My question is to the Minister for Mental Health. Minister, in light of the recent Legislative Council documents motion, will you now release the Ken Lay report on the second injecting room as required by 6 March?

Ingrid STITT (Western Metropolitan – Minister for Mental Health, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (11:55): I thank Mr Mulholland for his question and refer him to the procedures of the house. If he is not familiar with them, Mr Davis will I am sure coach him extensively on the way in which these procedures move through the house.

Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (11:55): Minister, did the government ask Mr Ken Lay to change his original draft of the report?

Ingrid STITT (Western Metropolitan – Minister for Mental Health, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (11:55): I thank Mr Mulholland for his supplementary question. He is asking about a matter that predates my time as the Minister for Mental Health. What I can confirm is that when I took the portfolio of mental health I was shortly thereafter provided with a copy of the Ken Lay report, which I had asked my department for. I took the time to read the contents of that report, and as I am sure you are very well aware, as I have said in the house a number of times now and indeed the Premier has said in the other place, these are complex issues. The government makes no apology for taking the time required to respond appropriately to the very extensive report that Mr Lay has provided the government – (Time expired)