Hon. Kate Doust questions the Minister for Education regarding potential redundancies within the Department of Education following a media statement about job cuts. The Minister provides a vague answer, stating they don't know the exact numbers but expect them to be small.

AnsweredQoN 166Legislative Council
Asked
13 June 2013
Portfolio
Education

QuestionView source ↗

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION — REDUNDANCIES
166. Hon KATE DOUST to the Minister for Education:
I refer to the PremierXXX ###XXXs
media statement today in relation to job cuts.
(1) How many
staff employed by the Department of Education will be offered voluntary
redundancies in this round of cuts?
(2) How many school-based staff will be subject to targeted
severances or retrenchment?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the
question.
(1)–(2) I have no idea in terms of actual numbers at
this stage; suffice to say they will be very small in number.
Hon Kate Doust : Are you sure?
Hon PETER COLLIER : Yes.

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