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MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, all right. You are on a point of order. What are you doing, Mr Berry? Are you making a personal explanation, too?
MR BERRY: Mr Deputy Speaker, I have just responded to those things that Mr Humphries said in relation to what I had said; and it does, in fact, support what I have said in relation to the matter on a number of occasions.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Unless you are making a personal explanation, you have no right to. Sit down, Mr Berry.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS - STANDING COMMITTEE
Inquiry into Auditor-General's Report No. 6 of 1991
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition): I seek leave to make a statement regarding the review by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts of the Auditor-General's report No. 6 of 1991 on efficiency audits and the Audit Office's activities of 1990-91.
Leave granted.
MR KAINE: The sixth report of the Auditor-General, tabled in the Legislative Assembly by Mr Speaker on 6 August 1991, contained the Auditor-General's report to the Assembly on efficiency audits carried out in the year 1990-91, and the activities of the Government Audit Office during that period. As it has done on a previous occasion, the committee has decided that it will not prepare a formal report to be tabled in the Assembly following the committee's examination of audit report No. 6.
The committee notes that later reports of the Auditor-General, in particular report No. 9, dealing with financial administration and audit independence, comment further on several of the important issues raised in report No. 6, specifically, funding of the Government Audit Office and the issue of an independent external auditor and/or a peer reviewer. The committee believes that it is more appropriate to examine those issues in detail in the context of its other inquiries.
While the committee believes that the matters contained in report No. 6 are of particular interest and that the report is a helpful, concise document, because these matters have been or will be dealt with in response to other references, it intends to take no further action on this particular audit report.
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