Waste Collection

03 Mar 2009 questionsarchive

A question put forward to the Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for State/Local Government Relations, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister for Government Enterprises, Minister Assisting the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Energy) regarding Zero Waste.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (15:09): Did the minister, as the then minister, seek—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! Both sides of the chamber continue to interject.

The ministers have had a number of supplementaries. They have tried to answer them comprehensively. We have another supplementary, which I will allow.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: Can the minister advise, when she approved Zero Waste's strategy, whether she sought health department advice and, if so, what that advice was?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for State/Local Government Relations, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister for Government Enterprises, Minister Assisting the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Energy) (15:10): It was almost a year ago, and I do not carry those details around in my head. I do not know the answer to that, and it is not appropriate for me to return an answer to it because it is no longer my responsibility.