Absent MP should go for good: Qld premier QUEENSLAND Premier Campbell Newman says a disgraced MP who's attended parliament just three times in six months should be booted out for good. Redcliffe MP Scott Driscoll resigned from Mr Newman's Liberal National Party in April on the eve of being expelled. Parliament's ethics committee is investigating whether he secretly controlled a community group in Moreton Bay from his electorate office and paid his wife tens of thousands of dollars in consultancy fees. Police are also investigating fraud allegations. Since the allegations surfaced, Mr Driscoll has fronted parliament three times, including briefly on Tuesday night, to adhere to requirements for MPs to attend at least once every 21 sitting days. Mr Driscoll also sat through question time on Wednesday, which he spent flicking through his iPad and talking with United Australia Party leader Alex Douglas. Mr Newman says he hopes the ethics committee's investigation will result in Mr Driscoll's expulsion from parliament. "He is just playing a terrible game and I am disgusted in his conduct," he told reporters. I want to see him out of the parliament. I hope the ethics committee won't mind my comments. Mr Newman said he was tightening up absentee rules to make MPs have to show up at least every 12 days. But he still didn't think that would stop Mr Driscoll. "Oh what the heck, I'll say this - frankly, this guy's just going to game it," he said. Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says the premier doesn't understand parliamentary processes, because the ethics committee doesn't have the power to expel Mr Driscoll. They can only fine him or suspend him, which would be the worst outcome given he doesn't show up anyway, she said. "The best thing for Scott Driscoll to do is to consider whether he wants to take his position here full time or whether he is going to resign," she said. It is up to him now, it is up to his conscience to decide what the best thing is to do. She also hit out at Mr Newman for hand picking Mr Driscoll before the state election and saying he had full confidence in him when the allegations first surfaced. Mr Newman said all political parties had to deal with unworthy candidates "slipping through the cracks." Mr Driscoll denies any wrongdoing and has blamed ill health for his absence from parliament. AAP has sought comment from Mr Driscoll. A vote on reducing the maximum absence allowed from parliament for MPs from 21 to 12 days is expected this week.