❓ Mr. Barnett questions the Minister about a broken promise to sea rescue groups, specifically Fremantle, Cockburn, and Whitfords, who perform 65% of rescues. The Minister denies breaking any promise and accuses the Opposition of demanding unaccountable funding.
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I have a supplementary question. The minister said that 33 groups had agreed. The three that have not provide 65 per cent of all sea rescues; that is, Fremantle, Cockburn and Whitfords. The minister has broken her promise to them. Will she now address this situation? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
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That is a plainly incorrect assertion. I have broken no promise. The fact of the matter is that the Opposition is calling upon the Government to provide money to groups in an unaccountable way. FESA has bent over backwards to try to negotiate with these groups to get a service level agreement in place. We need to have a way forward for the coming summer season, and we will have a way forward. We cannot continue in a situation in which the organisation that is charged with responsibility under the legislation has under its control groups that are outside the legislation and have no service level agreement. The Leader of the Opposition clearly does not know very much about this. The Police Service allocates the tasks, and it allocates those tasks to accredited - Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The Leader of the Opposition is simply not telling the truth. He is saying in this House that I have never met with them. He is plainly wrong. I have met with each of those groups and many individuals from those groups. The Leader of the Opposition is not telling the truth again. He has the facts wrong. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: That is a plainly incorrect assertion. I have broken no promise. The fact of the matter is that the Opposition is calling upon the Government to provide money to groups in an unaccountable way. FESA has bent over backwards to try to negotiate with these groups to get a service level agreement in place. We need to have a way forward for the coming summer season, and we will have a way forward. We cannot continue in a situation in which the organisation that is charged with responsibility under the legislation has under its control groups that are outside the legislation and have no service level agreement. The Leader of the Opposition clearly does not know very much about this. The Police Service allocates the tasks, and it allocates those tasks to accredited - Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The Leader of the Opposition is simply not telling the truth. He is saying in this House that I have never met with them. He is plainly wrong. I have met with each of those groups and many individuals from those groups. The Leader of the Opposition is not telling the truth again. He has the facts wrong. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
That is a plainly incorrect assertion. I have broken no promise. The fact of the matter is that the Opposition is calling upon the Government to provide money to groups in an unaccountable way. FESA has bent over backwards to try to negotiate with these groups to get a service level agreement in place. We need to have a way forward for the coming summer season, and we will have a way forward. We cannot continue in a situation in which the organisation that is charged with responsibility under the legislation has under its control groups that are outside the legislation and have no service level agreement. The Leader of the Opposition clearly does not know very much about this. The Police Service allocates the tasks, and it allocates those tasks to accredited - Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The Leader of the Opposition is simply not telling the truth. He is saying in this House that I have never met with them. He is plainly wrong. I have met with each of those groups and many individuals from those groups. The Leader of the Opposition is not telling the truth again. He has the facts wrong. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The Leader of the Opposition is simply not telling the truth. He is saying in this House that I have never met with them. He is plainly wrong. I have met with each of those groups and many individuals from those groups. The Leader of the Opposition is not telling the truth again. He has the facts wrong. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The Leader of the Opposition is simply not telling the truth. He is saying in this House that I have never met with them. He is plainly wrong. I have met with each of those groups and many individuals from those groups. The Leader of the Opposition is not telling the truth again. He has the facts wrong. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The Leader of the Opposition is simply not telling the truth. He is saying in this House that I have never met with them. He is plainly wrong. I have met with each of those groups and many individuals from those groups. The Leader of the Opposition is not telling the truth again. He has the facts wrong. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: That is a plainly incorrect assertion. I have broken no promise. The fact of the matter is that the Opposition is calling upon the Government to provide money to groups in an unaccountable way. FESA has bent over backwards to try to negotiate with these groups to get a service level agreement in place. We need to have a way forward for the coming summer season, and we will have a way forward. We cannot continue in a situation in which the organisation that is charged with responsibility under the legislation has under its control groups that are outside the legislation and have no service level agreement. The Leader of the Opposition clearly does not know very much about this. The Police Service allocates the tasks, and it allocates those tasks to accredited - Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The Leader of the Opposition is simply not telling the truth. He is saying in this House that I have never met with them. He is plainly wrong. I have met with each of those groups and many individuals from those groups. The Leader of the Opposition is not telling the truth again. He has the facts wrong. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
That is a plainly incorrect assertion. I have broken no promise. The fact of the matter is that the Opposition is calling upon the Government to provide money to groups in an unaccountable way. FESA has bent over backwards to try to negotiate with these groups to get a service level agreement in place. We need to have a way forward for the coming summer season, and we will have a way forward. We cannot continue in a situation in which the organisation that is charged with responsibility under the legislation has under its control groups that are outside the legislation and have no service level agreement. The Leader of the Opposition clearly does not know very much about this. The Police Service allocates the tasks, and it allocates those tasks to accredited - Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The Leader of the Opposition is simply not telling the truth. He is saying in this House that I have never met with them. He is plainly wrong. I have met with each of those groups and many individuals from those groups. The Leader of the Opposition is not telling the truth again. He has the facts wrong. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The Leader of the Opposition is simply not telling the truth. He is saying in this House that I have never met with them. He is plainly wrong. I have met with each of those groups and many individuals from those groups. The Leader of the Opposition is not telling the truth again. He has the facts wrong. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The Leader of the Opposition is simply not telling the truth. He is saying in this House that I have never met with them. He is plainly wrong. I have met with each of those groups and many individuals from those groups. The Leader of the Opposition is not telling the truth again. He has the facts wrong. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The Leader of the Opposition is simply not telling the truth. He is saying in this House that I have never met with them. He is plainly wrong. I have met with each of those groups and many individuals from those groups. The Leader of the Opposition is not telling the truth again. He has the facts wrong. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for Warren-Blackwood.
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