Page 4282 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 20 November 1990
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again, that the Public Sector Management Board might have a look at a review of program and subprogram objectives and performance indicators, including the measurement process. It seemed to us that there is not much point in having performance indicators as part of your program budgeting if, in fact, you are not able to work out whether you are achieving what the performance indicators suggest you should be achieving.
Probably to save a bit of time in that area, the committee considered that agencies should put this information in their annual report so that the Estimates Committee could then use that as a basis for assisting it in its questioning process. Once again, that may have produced a reduction in the amount of time necessary to consider that, because the questions would have been answered in the reports that were provided to the Assembly.
Once again, I refer back to the requirement for supplementary information. The committee considered that that was another matter the proposed select committee I have already mentioned could look at, with a view to recommending what standard format, if you like, should be available. Some of the agencies provided quite detailed information which was useful and in fact meant that considerably less time was spent questioning about those issues.
This report is effectively a majority report, if you like. It is a very important report because all members of the committee sought to provide for the consideration of the Assembly and the agencies a reasonable comment on the process of the budget in the ACT rather than seeking, in this report anyway, to come up with divisive comments in relation to those issues. That is one of the important factors, from my point of view. I would like to say a word of thanks to the members of the committee who were keen to take on that role and ensure that we did have a pretty well unanimous report to put before this Assembly.
There are many other things that I could comment about but I am sure they will be taken up by other members of the committee. (Extension of time granted)
I would like to close by saying some words of thanks to all members of the committee staff, as this is something that cuts across all their areas, who assisted the committee in preparing advice during the process of deliberations and also were involved in assisting with the preparation of the final report. It goes without saying that we all - my fellow committee members and I - appreciate quite strongly the amount of support that was given to us during the committee process and stages. With those few comments I would like to conclude my remarks and pass on to other members of the committee to make their comments about the report.
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