Page 2062 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 21 June 2011
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was deputy chair, Ms Le Couteur, Mr Hargreaves representing the Labor Party, and Mr Hanson doing his first estimates. He has come through it without too many scars. Thank you for your goodwill. It does take a lot of effort for people to keep focused and get through the work. It is an incredibly short time frame.
If there are any errors in the report, I take responsibility for them. We have endeavoured to do our best but I am sure somebody, by the time I finish, will have found a spelling mistake or a punctuation error. They are all my fault; I take full responsibility. But members, thank you for the way in which you approached the task given us by the Assembly and for what we have achieved. It is probably a record. It is 285 pages and over 190 recommendations. It is a very comprehensive report.
I thank the community groups who attended. It is very hard for community groups to get involved in this process. They write submissions. They are given the opportunity to fill out a survey. They actually take time out to come and attend and often for some of them it is a dry well. But we do thank you for coming and we ask you all to remain engaged in the estimates process and the budget process. It is important that we know what it is that you need so that we can get the budget right.
To the ministers, thank you for your attendance. I appreciate the difficulties of the shifting sands of the admin arrangements and shifting them to the directorate structure, but I think we all coped. We got most of it right. To the departmental staff who attended and who, in most cases, were forthright with their answers, we appreciate that.
To the Committee Office, I would like to say thank you for all of your efforts, particularly the good process. Most of this document was written by the staff. For those that do not know, they sit there with us as we debate, writing almost a stream of consciousness. And you can see that. We have assisted in that process by putting in recommendations. There was an exchange bench and each of the members of the Committee Office came off the bench to take their turns at the computer. For instance, Dr Cullen would come forward and do Treasury and Economic Development. All of the staff had a turn in the committee. So we thank them for that and the work that they did.
In particular, I would say to Ray, “Tinkerbell”, thank you very much for the recording and thank you to the Hansard staff for the timely way that the Hansard and Committees on Demand appeared.
To Dr Lilburn, as the committee secretary, thank you. The committee did pass a couple of motions that did not make it in any recommendations. I will read one of them: “The Committee was most distressed to learn of the imminent departure of the Manager of the Committee Office, Dr Sandra Lilburn, for, of all places, Adelaide. The Committee does not believe that this will be good for the Members of the Legislative Assembly or the Committee Office, however beneficial it will be for the residents of South Australia. Recommendation: The Committee recommends that Dr Lilburn immediately reverse the decision to move to Adelaide and remain as the Manager of the Committee Office.” It was done tongue slightly in cheek but with some affection for Dr Lilburn as a person and the quality of work that she does. Sandra, best of luck
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