The Rockliff Government must come clean about the $250,000 in taxpayer money spent on legal fees on behalf of unknown MPs for unknown reasons.
It is plain to see, through the debate across the course of the day today, that we have lost trust in government and we believe we share that with the Tasmanian public.
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We have a job here to do. We need to uphold the independence of, and public confidence in, the judiciary.
The Integrity Commission has been scathing of the “legislative and resourcing constraints” placed upon them by the Liberal government, in their Annual Report tabled today.
The Integrity Commission, following the 2021 election, called the kind of process that your party engages in at election time to allocate this funding as 'indirect electoral bribery'. During the election this year, the Director of Public Integrity, Geoffrey Watson SC, rightly called it pork barrelling, fair and square. These are decisions that are made by people inside the Liberal Party. I don't know, and the community doesn't know, what is the criteria? Who's making the decisions?
Premier, is it government policy to pay the private legal fees of backbenchers should it be related to their work in some way or another?
So premier, I'm following up on a document that has just been tabled to the committee which is relating to legal fees for ministers or members of government. We've got here for example legal fees of $68,000 on 17 June this year. Would that be private counsel or legal advice, or would that be a pay for service from Crown law?
I want to ask you a holistic question about funding for integrity and oversight bodies in this budget. As we know the Integrity Commission faces an efficiency dividend. They're the lowest funded integrity by a long margin in the country.
We understand that earlier this year, concerned health staff made complaints to Tasmania Police about the conduct of former LGH manager, Dr Peter Renshaw, including allegations he breached the Coroners Act 1995.