Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Keneally, it will very much depend on the circumstances. The example that the departmental official has just given me is that if they were in a locked room with another person, then what you may find is that security cameras—as long as the person is being monitored by an ASIC holder or an MSIC holder in the secure area, depending on whether we're talking about an airport or a maritime facility—could be adequate, but it will very much depend on the particular circumstances. To clarify again, for the Hansard record: people who have an operational need to enter a security area but who do not have an ASIC or MSIC, must be escorted and continuously monitored by the ASIC holder in the secure areas of an airport or by an MSIC holder in the security zones of a port or offshore oil and gas facility.