Senate debates
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Motions
PFAS Task Force
3:49 pm
Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I move:
That the Senate—
(a) notes that:
(i) the Australian Government PFAS Taskforce is responsible for whole-of-government coordination and oversight of Australian Government responses to PFAS contamination; and
(ii) the Australian Government PFAS Taskforce works closely with the government agencies that have regulatory responsibilities, and the government agencies running site investigations, management activities and community engagements; and
(b) resolves to call on the Minister for the Environment, the Hon Sussan Ley, MP to arrange for the tabling in the Senate on the first sitting day following 1 June 2020:
(i) the minutes of the last 3 meetings of the PFAS Taskforce; and
(ii) the dates of each meeting of the PFAS Taskforce, commencing from the first meeting after 2015.
Question agreed to.