Mr MILLS - 2002-08-22
In reply to the question I asked previously with regard to public service numbers, you indicated that we cannot trust the numbers that you have printed in your own budget books, and that you have asked the Public Service Commissioner to provide you with a new set of public service numbers. We know that all permanent and part-time employees get a pay packet every fortnight based on numbers that the Public Service Commissioner has, and can provide at the push of a button. The CLP used to provide these figures once every month. Why are you hiding these figures, and when will we get these numbers?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I made it very clear in the last answer, and I will be very brief. The way you count figures – there are different ways of doing it. Are we talking about casual, part-time, or full-time? We have to sort out an effective way of doing our full-time equivalents. I am not prevaricating on this, we have the estimates in the budget. What I said is that I have asked the Public Service Commissioner to actually be able to produce effective and reliable figures. We will be making them available by the month. So, before you start going into high level conspiracies, settle down, we will get the figures counted. We will be open, transparent and accountable, something the previous government always found very difficult to achieve.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I made it very clear in the last answer, and I will be very brief. The way you count figures – there are different ways of doing it. Are we talking about casual, part-time, or full-time? We have to sort out an effective way of doing our full-time equivalents. I am not prevaricating on this, we have the estimates in the budget. What I said is that I have asked the Public Service Commissioner to actually be able to produce effective and reliable figures. We will be making them available by the month. So, before you start going into high level conspiracies, settle down, we will get the figures counted. We will be open, transparent and accountable, something the previous government always found very difficult to achieve.
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