❓ A parliamentary question regarding potential funding cuts to Police and Community Youth Centres (PCYCs). The Minister's response is perceived as evasive, leading to repeated demands for a direct 'yes' or 'no' answer.
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POLICE AND COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTRES
I have a supplementary question. After that bumbling attempt at an answer, I now ask: is any money being withdrawn from PCYCs or not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
I have a supplementary question. After that bumbling attempt at an answer, I now ask: is any money being withdrawn from PCYCs or not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
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I do not believe any money is being withdrawn by the state government from PCYCs. Mr M.P. Murray : Answer the question: yes or no. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am telling the member that I am not aware — Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
After that bumbling attempt at an answer, I now ask: is any money being withdrawn from PCYCs or not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: I do not believe any money is being withdrawn by the state government from PCYCs. Mr M.P. Murray : Answer the question: yes or no. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am telling the member that I am not aware — Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: I do not believe any money is being withdrawn by the state government from PCYCs. Mr M.P. Murray : Answer the question: yes or no. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am telling the member that I am not aware — Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
I do not believe any money is being withdrawn by the state government from PCYCs. Mr M.P. Murray : Answer the question: yes or no. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am telling the member that I am not aware — Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
Mr M.P. Murray : Answer the question: yes or no. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am telling the member that I am not aware — Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am telling the member that I am not aware — Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
After that bumbling attempt at an answer, I now ask: is any money being withdrawn from PCYCs or not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: I do not believe any money is being withdrawn by the state government from PCYCs. Mr M.P. Murray : Answer the question: yes or no. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am telling the member that I am not aware — Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: I do not believe any money is being withdrawn by the state government from PCYCs. Mr M.P. Murray : Answer the question: yes or no. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am telling the member that I am not aware — Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
I do not believe any money is being withdrawn by the state government from PCYCs. Mr M.P. Murray : Answer the question: yes or no. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am telling the member that I am not aware — Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
Mr M.P. Murray : Answer the question: yes or no. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am telling the member that I am not aware — Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am telling the member that I am not aware — Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
Mr M. McGowan : You are the minister; yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite ask the questions and I give the answers. They may not like the answers. In fact, they probably hate the answers because there is usually an eruption whenever I get to my feet. I have that effect on those guys, which is quite flattering sometimes. But I have to tell them that we have no intention of withdrawing any funding from PCYCs.
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