This isn’t to pick on the Department
of Health and Social Services, but I’m wondering under whose authority is the Minister and the other departments. They seem to be placing employees at random without this budget having gone through the full scrutiny of the Regular Members of this House. There’s something fundamentally wrong with a process that allows the government to do this to employees without it getting fully aired in this public forum by the Members duly elected to the 16th Legislative Assembly.
I’d like to ask the Minister: who’s giving you the instructions to be placing employees? Is it the Minister of Human Resources, or is it the Premier?