PREMIER Annastacia Palaszczuk has sacked Jo-Ann Miller as police minister.

But Ms Palaszczuk did not confirm if she would dump Ms Miller from her Cabinet entirely.

It comes after Ms Miller apologised to the House following a scathing Ethics Committee report which found she had displayed a pattern of reckless conduct.

In a statement released this afternoon, Ms Palaszczuk said she had “given close consideration to all of the circumstances involved”.

“In light of the seriousness of the committee’s findings, I have advised Minister Miller of my intention that she no longer continue in her present portfolio.

“This intention will be given effect as part of the discussions I am having with all of my Ministers over the coming days.

It comes as fellow Labor MP Jim Madden quit the Ethics Committee for his role in a story which revealed the report on Ms Miller would be handed down this week.

Members of the Ethics Commitee are forbidden from disclosing information about the deliberations of the Committee.

“I wish to advise the house that comments I made to a Queensland Times journalist during the course of a longer conversation that traversed a number of topics, appear to be the source of the information in his article,” Mr Madden told the House.

media_camera Labor MP Jim Madden has quit the Ethics Committee. Pic: Jack Tran

“I advise the House the house that I am personally authorised by the Ethics Committee to make this personal explanation to Parliament.

“I am a relatively new member of Parliament and the Ethics Committee.

“On reflection I see the comments I made to the journalist, which I thought at the time were of a general nature and innocuous, appear to have given the journalist sufficient information to write the article and I should not have spoken to him at all.

“I emphasis that at no point did I disclose the content of the draft Committee report referred to in the newspaper article

“I apologise to my fellow committee members, to the House and I advise that I have requested the Leader of the House to discharge me from the Ethics Committee.”

Stretton MP Duncan Pegg will replace Mr Madden on the Commitee.

media_camera It is not clear if Ms Miller will be let go from Cabinet. Pic: Jono Searle

EARLIER: Miller apologises to House for behaviour

In her apology to the House earlier today, Ms Miller assured the House “I will not let you down again”.

The apology came after she was found guilty of a pattern of reckless behaviour and called on to publicly apologise by Parliament’s powerful Ethics Committee.

Ms Miller said she did not deliberately breach guidelines.

“I did not intentionally fail to adhere to the guidelines adopted by the former parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee,” she said.

“However, I should have ensured I was cognisant of the guidelines that were applicable, and for this I apologise unconditionally to the Parliament.

“I accept the committee’s findings, as such I unreservedly apologise for not complying with the rules in relation to maintaining the confidentiality of documents and for incorrectly signing a statement in relation to the disposal of these documents.”

Ms Miller said she understood that the voters of Queensland expected the highest standards of their elected representatives.

“I have a strong belief in the integrity of the committee system of our Parliament here in Queensland, and an abiding commitment to ensuring the most important legacy of the Fitzgerald Inquiry, the PCCC, remains as a strong and lasting body to oversee the integrity provisions of our legislation,” she said.

“Therefore, I reservedly and sincerely apologise for any conduct that was not of the standard expected of a person in my position.

“The people of Queensland expect the highest standards to be met and maintained at all times by members of Parliament and ministers of the Crown. And I can assure you, I will not let them down again.”

Despite being found guilty of reckless behaviour Ms Miller has escaped any serious sanctions after she left sensitive documents in a safe despite signing a declaration stating it had been emptied.

The Ethics Committee’s report could provide Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk with the trigger to punt Ms Miller in her looming ministerial reshuffle with key Cabinet members furious and convinced she is a liability they can ill afford.

The committee has been considering whether Ms Miller falsely signed a statement declaring she had emptied the safe she was given as part of her previous role as the deputy chair of the Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee.

The investigation was sparked after The Courier-Mail revealed earlier this year Ms Miller left almost 90 documents detailing sensitive corruption watchdog documents in the safe.

The safe was later redistributed to the office of an Opposition MP.

Asked by the Opposition whether she planned to resign in the wake of the report being handed down, Ms Miller suggested she would not be doing so.

“Can I say that I’m getting on with the job of being the Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services and the Minister for Corrective Services in this state,” she told the House.

“That’s what I’m doing, that’s what I’ll continue to do, because the people of Queensland expect me to get on with the job in doing what I do in keeping the community safe in Queensland.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she would be “listening very closely” to her Police Minister’s statement to the Parliament, and planned to speak with her about the “very serious” matter.

“The Ethics Committee report has just been handed down, it is my intention to study that report in detail and I will be meeting with the Minister concerned about the findings of that report,” she said.

“This has been a thorough investigation by the committee.

“There has been, from my initial observing of this report, no findings of contempt.”

Ms Palaszczuk said she would be paying close attention to Ms Miller’s eventual statement to Parliament.

“There is an onus and obligation now contained in this report, on preliminary reading, for the Minister to make a statement to the House,” she said.

“I’ll be listening very closely to that statement to the House that Minister will have to make.

“This is very serious and I’ll be speaking to the Minister about it.”

The Premier was forced to fend off Opposition questions about specific elements of the report, saying she had not had sufficient time to examine it.

“I’m not going to pick and choose paragraphs out of the report when I need to study it and I need to speak to the Minister about it,” she said.

The ethics report stated: “The committee recommends no finding of contempt be made against the Member of Bundamba for failing to comply with the rules adopted by the former Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee.’

“”The committee also recommends no finding of contempt be made against the Member for Bundamba for deliberately misleading the PCCC on April 20, 2015 by signing an incorrect statement in relation to the destruction of documents which was tendered to the PCCC.

“However, the committee notes that despite their finding that the technical elements of contempt were not made out in respect to each allegation, the evidence before the committee across the two allegations demonstrates a pattern of reckless conduct on behalf of the Member for Bundamba.”

“The committee finds the combined effect of the Member for Bundamba’s conduct is to diminish the standing of Members of Parliament in the eyes of the public.

“In this regard the committee notes that the Member for Bundamba: did not follow the rules set by the former PCMC in relation to maintaining the confidentiality of the documents, despite moving the original motion which established those rules — specifically that she did not empty her Parliamentary and Electorate Office safes and either return these papers to the Secretariat or shred them; and that she did not return the keys for both safes directly to the Secretariat; and, incorrectly signed a statement that she had followed the rules.”

The committee recommended Ms Miller apologise for both her conduct and for her handling of the safe and the documents.

“Accordingly in the interests of maintaining the standards of conduct of Members of the Assembly, the committee recommends that the Member for Bundamba at the earliest opportunity, make a statement in the Assembly acknowledging that her conduct was not of the standard expected of a Member of Parliament and of a Minister of the Crown, and apologising for not complying with the rules adopted by the former PCMC in relation to the confidentiality of its proceedings and for signing an incorrect statement in relation to the destruction of documents which was tendered to the PCCC,” it stated.

Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg called on Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to “show leadership” and sack Jo-Ann Miller if she will not resign following the findings of the multi-party Ethics Committee.

“This Minister should be sacked. It’s about time the Premier acts,” Mr Springborg said.

Katter’s Australian Party Queensland Leader Robbie Katter has claimed “difficult dealings” with Police Minister Jo-Ann Miller spurred his party’s decision to support an LNP motion of no-confidence in the MP last night.

Mr Katter said he was disappointed Ms Miller had not consulted with interest groups during the national firearm review and had refused to reinstate a Firearm Committee.

“There was the national firearm review — one of the biggest overhauls of the industry in fifteen years,” Mr Katter said. “No one was consulted.

“Despite seven attempts, I finally got a meeting with the Minister that wasn’t productive and there was a refusal to reinstate that committee that had been effective in previous Labour and Liberal Governments.”

Mr Katter said the decision he and fellow KAP MP Shane Knuth made to support the Opposition’s motion had “nothing to do with the other issues surrounding the Minister.”

The motion was defeated last night after the Government secured the support of independent MP Billy Gordon and Speaker Peter Wellington.

Ethics Committee Chair Mark Ryan today also tabled the committee’s report into former acting Crime and Corruption chair Dr Ken Levy, finding no further action should be taken against him over allegations he misled a parliamentary committee.

It comes two years after the allegations were first raised against him.

The committee found it was “arguable” his statements to the PCCC contained factually incorrect material and were misleading.

OVERNIGHT: EMBATTLED Police Minister Jo-Ann Miller was publicly abandoned by most of her ministerial colleagues Wednesday night ahead of the release of a parliamentary report which may end her Cabinet career.

Only one Cabinet member, Agriculture Minister Bill Byrne, belatedly voiced support for Ms Miller during a no-confidence motion, introduced by the Opposition, which sparked fiery debate in the chamber.

Ms Miller grinned on occasions as the motion against her was debated, rising to her feet just once to object to an Opposition MP’s comment which she found offensive.

The votes of Independent Speaker Peter Wellington and Cook MP Billy Gordon ensured the no confidence motion failed after Katter’s Australia Party MPs backed LNP calls for Ms Miller to be forced to resign her ministry.

During the debate, Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg labelled the Police Minister an “absolute embarrassment”.

“It would be to our grand political advantage if the Member for Bundamba, the minister for police stayed in her current position,” Mr Springborg told Parliament.

“But ... the simple reality is enough is enough for the people of Queensland — the bungling must stop and it is time for this parliament to pass judgment on the Member for Bundamba, who has been an absolute embarrassment.”

However, it may be a brief reprieve for the Member for Bundamba, with the outcome of an Ethics Committee investigation expected to be tabled in State Parliament on Thursday.

The report could provide Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk with the trigger to punt Ms Miller in her looming ministerial reshuffle, with key Cabinet members furious and convinced she is a liability.

The committee has been considering whether Ms Miller falsely signed a statement declaring she had emptied the safe she was given as part of her previous role as the deputy chair of the Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee.

An investigation followed The Courier-Mail revelation earlier this year that Ms Miller left almost 90 sensitive corruption watchdog documents in the safe. It was later redistributed to the office of an Opposition MP.

Motions of no confidence are rare in Queensland Parliament and convention dictates ministers should resign. However Borbidge government attorney-general Denver Beanland remained in his position after one passed against him in 1997.

Only Labor backbenchers, including Ferny Grove’s Mark Furner and Keppel’s Brittany Lauga, planned to speak up for Ms Miller until Opposition jeering prompted Mr Byrne to voice his support.

Mr Byrne confessed Ms Miller was a “personal friend” and criticised the Opposition for not spending the final sitting week of the year debating issues which matter to Queensland.

“Jo-Ann Miller, the Minister for Police, is a friend of mine, has been for a long time and will be regardless of the efforts opposite,’’ he said.

“She’s done a very good job and nothing that has been put forward by those opposite of substance ...”

Opposition police spokesman Jarrod Bleijie sparked raucous scenes by flamboyantly signing a public poll questioning whether Ms Miller should remain, which is running in her local paper.