❓ Mr. Tinley questions the Minister for Housing regarding Transfield Services' payment practices to subcontractors and the Department's oversight. The Minister acknowledges issues with contract implementation and states Transfield is on notice, without directly answering the specific questions.
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Transfield Services — Housing Maintenance Contract
My question without notice is to the Minister for Housing — Several members interjected. Mr P.C. TINLEY : I am sorry; there is a no mercy rule! This week the general manager of service delivery, Mr Steve Parry, stated that the Department of Housing—Homeswest—is not privy to Transfield Services’ contract terms of payment of subcontractors. (1) Can the minister confirm Mr Parry’s comments that the department has no control over, or, indeed, even knowledge of, Transfield’s terms of payment to its subcontractors? (2) What does the minister have to say to the hardworking Western Australian small businesses that are struggling to survive due to serious and continued non-payment of moneys owed to them by Transfield? (3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION
My question without notice is to the Minister for Housing — Several members interjected. Mr P.C. TINLEY : I am sorry; there is a no mercy rule! This week the general manager of service delivery, Mr Steve Parry, stated that the Department of Housing—Homeswest—is not privy to Transfield Services’ contract terms of payment of subcontractors. (1) Can the minister confirm Mr Parry’s comments that the department has no control over, or, indeed, even knowledge of, Transfield’s terms of payment to its subcontractors? (2) What does the minister have to say to the hardworking Western Australian small businesses that are struggling to survive due to serious and continued non-payment of moneys owed to them by Transfield? (3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION
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I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Several members interjected. Mr P.C. TINLEY : I am sorry; there is a no mercy rule! This week the general manager of service delivery, Mr Steve Parry, stated that the Department of Housing—Homeswest—is not privy to Transfield Services’ contract terms of payment of subcontractors. (1) Can the minister confirm Mr Parry’s comments that the department has no control over, or, indeed, even knowledge of, Transfield’s terms of payment to its subcontractors? (2) What does the minister have to say to the hardworking Western Australian small businesses that are struggling to survive due to serious and continued non-payment of moneys owed to them by Transfield? (3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Mr P.C. TINLEY : I am sorry; there is a no mercy rule! This week the general manager of service delivery, Mr Steve Parry, stated that the Department of Housing—Homeswest—is not privy to Transfield Services’ contract terms of payment of subcontractors. (1) Can the minister confirm Mr Parry’s comments that the department has no control over, or, indeed, even knowledge of, Transfield’s terms of payment to its subcontractors? (2) What does the minister have to say to the hardworking Western Australian small businesses that are struggling to survive due to serious and continued non-payment of moneys owed to them by Transfield? (3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
This week the general manager of service delivery, Mr Steve Parry, stated that the Department of Housing—Homeswest—is not privy to Transfield Services’ contract terms of payment of subcontractors. (1) Can the minister confirm Mr Parry’s comments that the department has no control over, or, indeed, even knowledge of, Transfield’s terms of payment to its subcontractors? (2) What does the minister have to say to the hardworking Western Australian small businesses that are struggling to survive due to serious and continued non-payment of moneys owed to them by Transfield? (3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
(1) Can the minister confirm Mr Parry’s comments that the department has no control over, or, indeed, even knowledge of, Transfield’s terms of payment to its subcontractors? (2) What does the minister have to say to the hardworking Western Australian small businesses that are struggling to survive due to serious and continued non-payment of moneys owed to them by Transfield? (3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
(2) What does the minister have to say to the hardworking Western Australian small businesses that are struggling to survive due to serious and continued non-payment of moneys owed to them by Transfield? (3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
(3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
(1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Several members interjected. Mr P.C. TINLEY : I am sorry; there is a no mercy rule! This week the general manager of service delivery, Mr Steve Parry, stated that the Department of Housing—Homeswest—is not privy to Transfield Services’ contract terms of payment of subcontractors. (1) Can the minister confirm Mr Parry’s comments that the department has no control over, or, indeed, even knowledge of, Transfield’s terms of payment to its subcontractors? (2) What does the minister have to say to the hardworking Western Australian small businesses that are struggling to survive due to serious and continued non-payment of moneys owed to them by Transfield? (3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Mr P.C. TINLEY : I am sorry; there is a no mercy rule! This week the general manager of service delivery, Mr Steve Parry, stated that the Department of Housing—Homeswest—is not privy to Transfield Services’ contract terms of payment of subcontractors. (1) Can the minister confirm Mr Parry’s comments that the department has no control over, or, indeed, even knowledge of, Transfield’s terms of payment to its subcontractors? (2) What does the minister have to say to the hardworking Western Australian small businesses that are struggling to survive due to serious and continued non-payment of moneys owed to them by Transfield? (3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
This week the general manager of service delivery, Mr Steve Parry, stated that the Department of Housing—Homeswest—is not privy to Transfield Services’ contract terms of payment of subcontractors. (1) Can the minister confirm Mr Parry’s comments that the department has no control over, or, indeed, even knowledge of, Transfield’s terms of payment to its subcontractors? (2) What does the minister have to say to the hardworking Western Australian small businesses that are struggling to survive due to serious and continued non-payment of moneys owed to them by Transfield? (3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
(1) Can the minister confirm Mr Parry’s comments that the department has no control over, or, indeed, even knowledge of, Transfield’s terms of payment to its subcontractors? (2) What does the minister have to say to the hardworking Western Australian small businesses that are struggling to survive due to serious and continued non-payment of moneys owed to them by Transfield? (3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
(2) What does the minister have to say to the hardworking Western Australian small businesses that are struggling to survive due to serious and continued non-payment of moneys owed to them by Transfield? (3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
(3) Can the minister now admit that this privatisation experiment has failed and that in the process of this disaster he has lost complete control over millions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Mr W.R. MARMION replied: I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
I thank the member for Willagee for his question. (1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
(1)–(3) I also thank the member for Willagee for coming to my office with some contractors. I met the member without staff from the department so that I could hear the contractors’ concerns firsthand — Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Mr M.P. Whitely : Did you have parallel conversations? Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Mr W.R. MARMION : Come on! Getting back to the member for Willagee’s very good serious question, the member took the liberty and my offer of bringing two contractors into my office where they raised their concerns about payments and various other aspects of their contract. I have followed through on those issues. I am keeping a watching brief on the department. There are issues in the way that these contracts were implemented; they could have been implemented better and I acknowledge that. The department has acknowledged that with me. As I have said in this house before, Transfield Services has contractual requirements and I am looking at those contractual requirements — Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Mr P.C. Tinley : Get somewhere close to the question if you can, minister—somewhere close! Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
Mr W.R. MARMION : — and Transfield is on notice.
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