HEALTH minister Sussan Ley spent more than $12,000 chartering a private jet so she could attend the Pharmacy Guild's APP conference on the Gold Coast in Mar last year, according to a News Limited media report this morning.
The flight from Canberra was undertaken "in accordance with the rules," said a spokeswoman for the minister, with alternative commercial flights found to be unsuitable due to a tight schedule.
"Before Minister Ley departed Canberra, she was required to attend another ministerial portfolio commitment that morning which had been called at short notice.
"This meant any commercial flights out of Canberra on that day would have had Minister Ley arrive into Coolangatta after her scheduled commitment with the Pharmacy Guild was due to start," the Herald Sun quoted the spokeswoman as saying.
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