❓ Mr. Quigley requests statistics on prisoners held under the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996, broken down by Indigenous status. Mr. Porter agrees to provide the data, but notes it may take longer than the requested timeframe and implies Mr. Quigley's approach could be more courteous.
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PRISONERS — MENTAL IMPAIRMENT
I have a supplementary question. Will the Attorney General please give an undertaking to provide to the Parliament by the end of this day’s sitting the statistics for those being held under the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996, with a breakdown of Indigenous and non-Indigenous prisoners? Mr C.C. PORTER
I have a supplementary question. Will the Attorney General please give an undertaking to provide to the Parliament by the end of this day’s sitting the statistics for those being held under the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996, with a breakdown of Indigenous and non-Indigenous prisoners? Mr C.C. PORTER
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I will provide the figures for how many people are being held in our prison system pursuant to a declaration by a judge that they are unfit to stand trial. I will get the figures for those held in our prison system by virtue of the fact that they were declared insane—that is, they ran a successful defence of insanity under the Criminal Code. It may take me longer than the end of today to obtain that information, but the member for Mindarie knows that he can approach me at any time for that sort of data, and often does, and I think that for just about every request he has ever come to me with, I have given him the data he needed. He could go about this in a somewhat more gentlemanly fashion, but it is up to him how he wants to go about it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Like the member for Vasse? He’s a gentleman! Mr C.C. PORTER : I will get that information for the member for Mindarie, as a request from one gentleman to another, as I always do whenever he asks me for anything.
Mr C.C. PORTER replied: I will provide the figures for how many people are being held in our prison system pursuant to a declaration by a judge that they are unfit to stand trial. I will get the figures for those held in our prison system by virtue of the fact that they were declared insane—that is, they ran a successful defence of insanity under the Criminal Code. It may take me longer than the end of today to obtain that information, but the member for Mindarie knows that he can approach me at any time for that sort of data, and often does, and I think that for just about every request he has ever come to me with, I have given him the data he needed. He could go about this in a somewhat more gentlemanly fashion, but it is up to him how he wants to go about it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Like the member for Vasse? He’s a gentleman! Mr C.C. PORTER : I will get that information for the member for Mindarie, as a request from one gentleman to another, as I always do whenever he asks me for anything.
I will provide the figures for how many people are being held in our prison system pursuant to a declaration by a judge that they are unfit to stand trial. I will get the figures for those held in our prison system by virtue of the fact that they were declared insane—that is, they ran a successful defence of insanity under the Criminal Code. It may take me longer than the end of today to obtain that information, but the member for Mindarie knows that he can approach me at any time for that sort of data, and often does, and I think that for just about every request he has ever come to me with, I have given him the data he needed. He could go about this in a somewhat more gentlemanly fashion, but it is up to him how he wants to go about it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Like the member for Vasse? He’s a gentleman! Mr C.C. PORTER : I will get that information for the member for Mindarie, as a request from one gentleman to another, as I always do whenever he asks me for anything.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Like the member for Vasse? He’s a gentleman! Mr C.C. PORTER : I will get that information for the member for Mindarie, as a request from one gentleman to another, as I always do whenever he asks me for anything.
Mr C.C. PORTER : I will get that information for the member for Mindarie, as a request from one gentleman to another, as I always do whenever he asks me for anything.
Mr C.C. PORTER replied: I will provide the figures for how many people are being held in our prison system pursuant to a declaration by a judge that they are unfit to stand trial. I will get the figures for those held in our prison system by virtue of the fact that they were declared insane—that is, they ran a successful defence of insanity under the Criminal Code. It may take me longer than the end of today to obtain that information, but the member for Mindarie knows that he can approach me at any time for that sort of data, and often does, and I think that for just about every request he has ever come to me with, I have given him the data he needed. He could go about this in a somewhat more gentlemanly fashion, but it is up to him how he wants to go about it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Like the member for Vasse? He’s a gentleman! Mr C.C. PORTER : I will get that information for the member for Mindarie, as a request from one gentleman to another, as I always do whenever he asks me for anything.
I will provide the figures for how many people are being held in our prison system pursuant to a declaration by a judge that they are unfit to stand trial. I will get the figures for those held in our prison system by virtue of the fact that they were declared insane—that is, they ran a successful defence of insanity under the Criminal Code. It may take me longer than the end of today to obtain that information, but the member for Mindarie knows that he can approach me at any time for that sort of data, and often does, and I think that for just about every request he has ever come to me with, I have given him the data he needed. He could go about this in a somewhat more gentlemanly fashion, but it is up to him how he wants to go about it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Like the member for Vasse? He’s a gentleman! Mr C.C. PORTER : I will get that information for the member for Mindarie, as a request from one gentleman to another, as I always do whenever he asks me for anything.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Like the member for Vasse? He’s a gentleman! Mr C.C. PORTER : I will get that information for the member for Mindarie, as a request from one gentleman to another, as I always do whenever he asks me for anything.
Mr C.C. PORTER : I will get that information for the member for Mindarie, as a request from one gentleman to another, as I always do whenever he asks me for anything.
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