At the Presiding Officers and Conference in July 2013, the following papers were Clerk’s presented: The umpire strikes back. Musings of an opposition member turned Speaker Vicki Dunne MLA, – Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Ten measures of a healthy Parliament Tom Duncan, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly – Two staff attended a course on parliamentary law, practice and procedure as part of the University of and presented papers on the following topics: Tasmania’s ANZACATT training, Developing the capacity of committee members—A win for scrutiny? Margie Morrison — The role of the separation of powers doctrine in arguments for reform to parliamentary budget setting processes Michael Sloane – Financial report and management discussion and analysis The financial report and management discussion and analysis are at Appendix 22. Office’s Analysis of the Office’s performance Banking transition The transition to the new whole-of-government banking services provider, which was commenced in the 2013-2014 year, was finalised in the early part of this reporting period. Major building works Goal 1 Improve services to the Assembly and its committees – Shortly after the passage of the Australian Capital Territory (Ministers) Act 2013, the Chief Minister announced that she intended to appoint a sixth minister. Following consultation with the Chief the space on the second floor of the building Minister’s office, was reconfigured to accommodate a sixth The cost of this work was $36,590 and minister’s suite. it was funded from the 2013-2014 Capital Upgrade Program. Office’s Hansard, Technology and Library Services Appendices 10 to 12 set out performance against targets for Hansard, Technology and the Assembly Library. Although Hansard accuracy remained very high, some publication targets were not met due to unavoidable delays, slightly reducing overall performance on timeliness of publication for the year. One library service—cataloguing— also did not meet the performance standard as priority was placed on improving the library intranet as recommended in the review of client information needs. The backlog will be catalogued in the coming year. Results from the survey of members and their staff were largely positive (Appendix 21). Recurring themes for improvements to information technology services included: ease of using the intranet; email synching; poor speed of the internet; and some instances of Assembly’s unsatisfactory IT support. Respondents were generally pleased with the responsiveness of library
At the Presiding Officers and Clerk’s Conference in July 2013, the following papers were presented: The umpire strikes back. Musings of an opposition member turned Speaker – Vicki Dunne MLA, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Ten measures of a healthy Parliament – Tom Duncan, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly Two staff attended a course on parliamentary law, practice and procedure as part of the University of Tasmania’s ANZACATT training, and presented papers on the following topics: Developing the capacity of committee members—A win for scrutiny? — Margie Morrison The role of the separation of powers doctrine in arguments for reform to parliamentary budget setting processes – Michael Sloane Financial report and management discussion and analysis The Office’s financial report and management discussion and analysis are at Appendix 22. Analysis of the Office’s performance Banking transition The transition to the new whole-of-government banking services provider, which was commenced in the 2013-2014 year, was finalised in the early part of this reporting period. Major building works Goal 1 – Improve services to the Assembly and its committees Shortly after the passage of the Australian Capital Territory (Ministers) Act 2013, the Chief Minister announced that she intended to appoint a sixth minister. Following consultation with the Chief Minister’s office, the space on the second floor of the building was reconfigured to accommodate a sixth minister’s suite. The cost of this work was $36,590 and it was funded from the Office’s 2013-2014 Capital Upgrade Program. Hansard, Technology and Library Services Appendices 10 to 12 set out performance against targets for Hansard, Technology and the Assembly Library. Although Hansard accuracy remained very high, some publication targets were not met due to unavoidable delays, slightly reducing overall performance on timeliness of publication for the year. One library service—cataloguing— also did not meet the performance standard as priority was placed on improving the library intranet as recommended in the review of client information needs. The backlog will be catalogued in the coming year. Results from the survey of members and their staff were largely positive (Appendix 21). Recurring themes for improvements to information technology services included: ease of using the Assembly’s intranet; email synching; poor speed of the internet; and some instances of unsatisfactory IT support. Respondents were generally pleased with the responsiveness of library