This speech was delivered on 28th May 2014 in the NSW Upper House. You can read the full debate online here.
Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE: I direct my question to the Minister for Ageing, and Minister for Disability Services, representing the Minister for Police and Emergency Services. Given today’s Independent Commission Against Corruption [ICAC] finding that former State Emergency Service Deputy Commissioner McCarthy was corruptly dismissed in reprisal for raising perfectly valid concerns about waste, mismanagement and potential corruption, when will the Government offer this brave whistleblower her job back?
Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE: I ask a supplementary question. Will the Minister elucidate his answer by telling the House what consideration this Government is giving to reinstating this whistleblower, who should never have been dismissed, not only terminating the commissioner?