Santo Santoro (Queensland, Liberal Party, Minister for Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

I do not think that I can add substantially beyond the answer that I have just provided to Senator Allison, but let me make a couple of further points. The point is that the chairs of committees are drawn from council. The chair of AHEC will usually be the person with expertise in ethics. However, it is possible that the person appointed chair of AHEC might be a lawyer or, say, a person with special expertise in people with disabilities. In this case, you may also want a person with expertise in ethics. That may be a scenario that arises. Again, this legislation is flexible enough to provide for a person with expertise in ethics to be appointed in the absence of the chair of AHEC not having that specific expertise.