Page 2519 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 23 August 1994
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ESTIMATES 1994-95 - SELECT COMMITTEE
Report on the Appropriation Bill 1994-95
MS SZUTY (5.03): I seek leave to present the report by the Select Committee on Estimates 1994-95 and to move two motions in relation to the report.
Leave granted.
MS SZUTY: Pursuant to order, I present the report by the Select Committee on Estimates 1994-95, together with a copy of the minutes of proceedings. This report was provided to you, Madam Speaker, on Friday, 12 August 1994, for circulation pursuant to the resolution of appointment. I move:
That the Assembly authorises the publication of the report of the Select Committee on Estimates 1994-95.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
MS SZUTY: I move:
That the report be noted.
Madam Speaker, it is with much pleasure that I present the report of the Select Committee on Estimates on the Government's Appropriation Bill 1994-95. There was considerable speculation at the time the Estimates Committee was established this year about how much time would be needed for the committee to complete its task, given that members of the committee would not have end of financial year information about agency performance or agency annual reports to consider. In fact, we gave ourselves half the public hearing time that we had given ourselves last year to conclude our questions, in anticipation of the comparatively smaller workload that we would have to complete this task. However, in terms of compiling the report and commenting constructively on the Government's performance, we have needed all of the winter recess period available to us to complete our task. I would like to thank each and every member of the Estimates Committee for the work that has been done in achieving this result. The effort that many members put in was certainly greater than I expected or anticipated.
Members of the Assembly will note that the Estimates Committee has made 37 recommendations, all but three of which have the support of all of the members of the committee. I note that, when the time came for the motion to be moved in the committee that the report, as amended, be adopted, there was one dissenting voice, that of Mr Berry. When the committee went through each of the issues and discussed and considered each of the recommendations, Mr Berry indicated that he had difficulties with recommendations 16 and 26 and, given that the committee did not accept Mr Berry's proposed amendments to recommendation 11, it could be assumed that Mr Berry opposed this particular recommendation even though he was not present at the meeting at the time to register his opposition to that recommendation.
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