Page 2563 - Week 08 - Thursday, 30 August 2007
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The Office established this fund with no start-up capital, with the fund itself now being administered on a voluntary basis. Already it has amassed nearly three million dollars in donations and aims to have $10million in the trust within five years.
All of these activities, Mr Speaker, have enabled the Office of the Public Trustee to grow its business, to achieve the kind of operating surplus I mentioned earlier, and to work towards the ultimate goal to be financially self-sufficient.
Mr Speaker, the Estimates Committee raised just one relatively minor issue for the Office of the Public Trustee, and that is that it provided no accountability indicators in the government’s budget papers.
Certainly the Office’s Annual Report provides a significant amount of information about business outcomes. However there is not much in the way of accountability indicators against which those outcomes can be measured.
Given the extent of the information it has available and the ease with which that information can be compiled, I would encourage the Office of the Public Trustee to consider this matter for future years.
That said, Mr Speaker, I commend the Office of the Public Trustee for the good work it does in public service for our community, for the innovative approach it takes to running its business, and for the very pro-active manner in which it makes its services available.
I am very pleased to be able to support the budget funding for this valuable and highly valued organisation in our community.
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