❓ Mr. L'Estrange questions the Premier about meetings with emergency service heads regarding business continuity plans during the coronavirus pandemic. The Premier responds by outlining meetings held by ministers and himself, and emphasizes a calm, rational approach.
AnsweredQoN 134Legislative Assembly
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CORONAVIRUS — FRONTLINE EMERGENCY SERVICES
134. Mr S.K. L'ESTRANGE to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
Thank you, Premier. Page 5 of the ''Western Australian Government
Pandemic Plan'' acknowledges the problem, but has the Premier or any of
his ministers held meetings with the head of St John Ambulance WA and the Fire
and Emergency Services Commissioner to finalise a business continuity plan in
the event that their employees are unable to deliver frontline emergency
services?
134. Mr S.K. L'ESTRANGE to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
Thank you, Premier. Page 5 of the ''Western Australian Government
Pandemic Plan'' acknowledges the problem, but has the Premier or any of
his ministers held meetings with the head of St John Ambulance WA and the Fire
and Emergency Services Commissioner to finalise a business continuity plan in
the event that their employees are unable to deliver frontline emergency
services?
AnswerView source ↗
The Minister for Health has met with
the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the head of St John Ambulance WA. The
Minister for Emergency Services has met with the commissioner for emergency
services recently. Last week, I chaired a meeting
of the security and emergency coordinating committee of cabinet, and, indeed,
the commissioner for emergency services was there. I have met with the
Commissioner of Police, and I had a long conversation with the Deputy
Commissioner of Police, Col Blanch, on Sunday about the ways of managing the
situation. Essentially, it is a difficult situation. What we need to do is make
sure that we approach it with a calm and rational manner, whether it is
rostering arrangements, whether it is bringing people from back-office
functions into frontline areas; that is the way these things are managed when
one of these crises hit. I am sure that the Western Australian public sector
and Western Australian public understand that that is the way calm, responsible
government operates, and that is the Western Australian spirit. That is the Western
Australian spirit to deal with these matters. We are a resilient people, and we
are good people. This is the way that we respond to these crises. This is a serious
matter, but Western Australia has been through a lot of crises in its time, and
our people have risen to the challenge. I was thinking about it before. We have
been through some dramatic economic and social events. We have been through wars in our time. We have risen to the challenge,
and we will rise to this challenge and make sure that we deal with it in
the Western Australian way, which is calm, considered, rational and
responsible.
The SPEAKER : That is the end
of question time.
the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the head of St John Ambulance WA. The
Minister for Emergency Services has met with the commissioner for emergency
services recently. Last week, I chaired a meeting
of the security and emergency coordinating committee of cabinet, and, indeed,
the commissioner for emergency services was there. I have met with the
Commissioner of Police, and I had a long conversation with the Deputy
Commissioner of Police, Col Blanch, on Sunday about the ways of managing the
situation. Essentially, it is a difficult situation. What we need to do is make
sure that we approach it with a calm and rational manner, whether it is
rostering arrangements, whether it is bringing people from back-office
functions into frontline areas; that is the way these things are managed when
one of these crises hit. I am sure that the Western Australian public sector
and Western Australian public understand that that is the way calm, responsible
government operates, and that is the Western Australian spirit. That is the Western
Australian spirit to deal with these matters. We are a resilient people, and we
are good people. This is the way that we respond to these crises. This is a serious
matter, but Western Australia has been through a lot of crises in its time, and
our people have risen to the challenge. I was thinking about it before. We have
been through some dramatic economic and social events. We have been through wars in our time. We have risen to the challenge,
and we will rise to this challenge and make sure that we deal with it in
the Western Australian way, which is calm, considered, rational and
responsible.
The SPEAKER : That is the end
of question time.
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