Parliamentary Committee report discredits Member for Currumbin

The Member for Currumbin Jann Stuckey has been comprehensively discredited by the Members’ Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee, Disability Services Minister Warren Pitt said today.

Mr Pitt said the Committee had dismissed Ms Stuckey’s allegations that he had deliberately misled the Parliament.

“In its report handed down today, the all-party committee found that the particular statements I made in the Parliament in relation to A Current Affair were factually correct.

“Ms Stuckey had complained to the Committee that the statements were not only untrue but deliberately misleading.

“She claimed that I had committed contempt of the Parliament by knowingly making untrue statements. Ms Stuckey also appeared on A Current Affair claiming that I had misled the Parliament.

“The Members’ Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee considered Ms Stuckey’s allegations closely, and found no basis to them whatsoever.

“In its report the Committee states unequivocally that the statements I made were factually correct.

“This report leaves Ms Stuckey with egg all over her face. She resorted to false accusations in her attempts to malign me, and that has now completely backfired on her.

“I have been totally vindicated by this report. Ms Stuckey, however, has been comprehensively discredited.

“It is a very serious accusation for a Member of Parliament to say that another Member has deliberately lied and misled the House. It is a very serious step to proceed with a formal complaint to the Members’ Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee.

“Yet Ms Stuckey is so reckless with the truth and was so desperate to get some cheap publicity from A Current Affair that this is what she was prepared to do. She has treated the Parliament and its processes with contempt.

“I think Ms Stuckey owes the Parliament an apology. She definitely owes me an apology as well, but I would settle for her giving a commitment to stick to the facts and to tell the truth.”

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