Page 2999 - Week 09 - Thursday, 18 August 2005
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(6) What are the skills that these temporary IMC3 staff possess that differentiates them from other suitable applicants that could have been found if the positions were advertised in the wider community;
(7) Of the approximately 63 staff that have been employed to fill positions over the last two years, specifically staff who work for the ESA but not any front line agency, how many of these positions were advertised;
(8) If any of these positions were not advertised, why not;
(9) Are all 63 staff required given the imperative to shed staff from the ACT public service and given that the ESB seemed to function without them;
(10) What specifically are the communication contract savings for in Budget Paper 4, page 375;
(11) Who, if anyone, now holds these contracts;
(12) Why has $9 985 000 of funding for West Belconnen and Belconnen Joint Emergency Service Centres been removed from the budget, Budget Paper 4, page 375;
(13) What is the $60 000 of funding for a Belconnen Fire and Ambulance Station for in Budget Paper 4, page 376;
(14) Why has the Government entered into approximately $11 million worth of new communications contracts over the last year which do not appear to be part of the initial Communications Plan that totalled $23.6 million over four years;
(15) What is the current Communications Plan;
(16) What is the estimated total cost of the Trunk Radio Network (TRN), including the cost of installations so far by component of funding for future TRN installations;
(17) In relation to the TRN, how many base stations, including those installed and those yet to be installed, have you or will you install;
(18) Why was a contract entered into in which the ACT Government has to bear the cost of additional expenses for the non-performance of the contract;
(19) Why, as of 31 March 2005, was the contract removed for amendment, approximately four months before the expiry of the contract;
(20) Was money initially appropriated for the construction of 22 base stations and was it later revealed only 16 would be needed to cover the necessary coverage area, seven would be refurbished and the remaining nine were to be newly constructed and as five have been completed so far with a further four to be installed in phase 2; if so, where are the extra base stations to fulfil the quota of 16 and what is being done with the remaining funds;
(21) What is the coverage and reliability of this new network;
(22) Why now has there been funds appropriated over the next four years, totalling approximately $14.5 million after previous funds have been moved forward, Budget Paper 4, page 375, to cover the acceleration of the upgrade;
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