| DPM Faber: Call It A Wrap On Senate Hearings |
| Fri, September 15, 2017 |
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| Deputy PM Faber also commented on the Government's plan to end funding for the Senate hearings after November. It has provoked sharp criticism from the teachers union - which pushed for the hearings in the first place.
Today, DPM Faber re-iterated the position he first put out there months ago - that the hearings must have an end, and it's about that time:
Hon. Patrick Faber, Deputy Prime Minister
"Whatever could have been achieved out of it has been achieved. There is no reason as I have said on the record before for us to continue with this issue. Let us now see how we could make improvements, and you know those improvements in terms of immigration as you saw with the bringing of the Director of Immigration to the inquiry, those improvements have already been started. We need to continue and make sure that we fix things. I don't think that anything that came out of the inquiry pointed to any kind of, ahm, arrests needing to be made, at least those have not been pronounced. But let us get on with the business of reporting what is the findings and if there is in fact criminal activity on the part of anybody let's deal with that. But it cannot go on forever, and this is what some people want."
The senate is divided on whether it should continue beyond November, and no majority position has been announced.
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