Home wants to move on from AFR saga

HOME minister Jonathan Le Tocq wants to get on with running a busy department rather than debate the AFR saga.

Questions were asked in the States about whether one should happen on Scrutiny's critical findings of how the department handled the confidential settlement that was reached with the advocate's firm after an illegal police raid on its offices.

The department has refused to release the full costs of the settlement and, after a snap review, the committee concluded that the department had failed to provide political oversight of the deal struck by the chief of police.

Deputy Le Tocq, pictured, said the department would not ask for a debate.

He was responding to questions from Deputy John Gollop, who also quizzed the Scrutiny chairman, Paul Arditti, about its decision not to put the report forward for discussion.

Mr Arditti said that the committee was aspiring to be a-political – it did not have the time or resources to act as a shadow policy-making body.