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The Committee concludes that the Government needs to constantly review the relative costs of using contractors to carry out work compared with the cost of paying ACT Government Service employees.
My question is: has the Government reviewed the relative costs of using contractors to carry out work compared with the cost of paying ACT government service employees, as recommended by the Estimates Committee? If the answer is yes, by whom is the review being carried out? Is it a non-government group, for the sake of impartiality?
MRS GRASSBY: Thank you, Mr Stefaniak. It is a pity you did not bring this up in relation to the Estimates Committee report. You always seem to be a week or hours behind.
Mr Stefaniak: I did. It was quoted.
Mr Humphries: He did.
MRS GRASSBY: No, you did not bring up this question; no, he did not bring it up at all.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Address the question, please, Minister.
MRS GRASSBY: This morning it was not brought up.
Mr Humphries: This morning?
MRS GRASSBY: Yes.
Mr Humphries: He raised it during the estimates.
MRS GRASSBY: We have looked at it, Mr Stefaniak, as I have said to you before. We found that what the contractors will do it for and what we can do it for is about the same. As I have no intention of putting staff off from my department, the work will be given to my department first and, as we need contractors, we will bring them on.
MR STEFANIAK: I ask a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. I ask the Minister to answer this: by whom is the review being carried out? She has not answered that yet.
MRS GRASSBY: My department.
WANT OF CONFIDENCE IN CHIEF MINISTER
Notice of Motion
The Clerk: Notice has been received from Mr Collaery that, on Tuesday, 5 December 1989, he shall move the following motion:
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