Ms CARNEY - 2005-08-24
In relation to the letter from Paul Tyrrell annexing a number of wish lists from the Central Land Council and Northern Land Council, I note that the CLC indicates that it wants you to restructure your department to seek additional expertise and to recruit new staff at all levels. This is on the back of a statement made by the Central Land Council that you have made ‘little progress in the first term of government’. Are you thinking about a restructure of your department in accordance with the CLC’s wishes? Are you planning one and, if so, who is going where?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, following the last sittings of parliament, I actually made the restructure that occurred in some areas of government quite public. Maybe the Opposition Leader missed it. We have ministers with new titles sitting here. There have been some restructures already. Within the Department of the Chief Minister, there is now the area of Trade and Major Projects. There has been a level of restructure within the Department of the Chief Minister. There were many suggestions formade to me on how we might restructure things over the last couple of years, and I am sure I will keep getting them.
I say, very clearly, in response to that suggestion from the CLC, that I have a very fine group of people who work for me in the Department of the Chief Minister. I value their advice enormously and I feel privileged to work with them. I certainly hope they are not planning to leave.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, following the last sittings of parliament, I actually made the restructure that occurred in some areas of government quite public. Maybe the Opposition Leader missed it. We have ministers with new titles sitting here. There have been some restructures already. Within the Department of the Chief Minister, there is now the area of Trade and Major Projects. There has been a level of restructure within the Department of the Chief Minister. There were many suggestions formade to me on how we might restructure things over the last couple of years, and I am sure I will keep getting them.
I say, very clearly, in response to that suggestion from the CLC, that I have a very fine group of people who work for me in the Department of the Chief Minister. I value their advice enormously and I feel privileged to work with them. I certainly hope they are not planning to leave.
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