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Public Accounts—Standing Committee—Report 12—Review of Auditor-General’s Report No 2 of 2009: Follow-up Audit—Implementation of Audit Recommendations on Road Safety-, dated 14 September 2010, together with a copy of the extracts of the relevant minutes of proceedings.
I move:
That the report be noted.
I am pleased to speak to report No 12 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Review of Auditor-General’s Report No 2 of 2009: Follow-up Audit—Implementation of audit recommendations on road safety. The public accounts committee resolved to conclude its consideration of the Auditor-General’s report No 2 of 2009 with a summary report. The audit report presented the results of a follow-up audit that reviewed the progress made by the Department of Territory and Municipal Services in responding to the recommendations of Auditor-General’s report No 4 of 2006—Road safety.
The committee believes the follow-up audit to have been both timely and of benefit to the agency concerned. The findings of the follow-up audit suggested that TAMS has made moderate progress towards the full implementation of the recommendations of the Auditor-General’s report No 4 of 2006 that it agreed or agreed to in part. In the follow-up audit, the Auditor-General made four recommendations, which were intended to further improve TAMS’s implementation of the initial audit recommendation.
The submission received from the government indicates that action is pending or in progress in relation to some of these recommendations. The committee has therefore made one recommendation in its report specifically asking the government to report on progress against those recommendations, where action is still pending or in progress, by the last sitting day in March 2011.
This includes reporting on, firstly, the outcome of the evaluation of road safety engineering treatments and policy initiatives, in particular the program evaluating black spot treatments, the process for evaluation of awareness measures and the evaluation of road safety programs; secondly, the implementation of a computerised smart form to allow electronic reporting of ACT traffic crashes; thirdly, the integration of smart form inputs into TAMS’s data entry and data processing functions; and, fourthly, the outcome of the review of ACT licensing, training and testing requirements for novice drivers.
The audit has also been invaluable in emphasising the role of follow-up audits in, firstly, establishing whether agencies have addressed accepted recommendations and findings in reports by the Auditor-General; and, secondly, in informing the ACT Assembly on the progress made by agencies in implementing accepted recommendations. The follow-up audit also reminds responsible agencies of the importance of ensuring that recommendations of the Auditor-General are appropriately monitored and addressed, in circumstances where administrative restrictions or machinery of government changes have occurred.
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