Committee Details

2018 Commonwealth Games: progress (Report 9: 2014-15)

The Auditor-General’s report was tabled in 16 December 2014, and referred to the committee on 5 May 2015 for consideration.

The report concluded that while preparations for the Games are progressing, overall planning, budgeting and governance was not at the level of maturity required to provide assurance across the entire program of work. The Auditor-General made five recommendations about governance, planning and budgeting.

On 20 May 2015 the Committee decided to monitor implementation of the Auditor-General’s recommendations by the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation and the Department of Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games.

After receiving briefings from those agencies the committee decided not to report to the Legislative Assembly.

Cloud computing Auditor-General’s (Report 13: 2015-16)

The Auditor-General’s report was tabled on 23 February 2016, and referred to the committee on 5 March 2016 for consideration. 

The committee held a public briefing on Wednesday, 22 March 2017 in the Parliamentary Annexe, Brisbane - view transcript

 

The committee tabled its report on 26 May 2017.

 

View:

Report No. 34, 55th Parliament - Implementation of the Auditor-General's recommendations about cloud computing

  

 

Early Childhood Education (Report 19: 2015-16)

The Auditor-General’s report was tabled on 7 June 2016, and referred to the committee on 16 June 2016 for consideration. 

  

The committee held a public briefing on Wednesday, 15 February 2017 - view transcript

 

The committee tabled its report on 24 March 2017.

 

View:

Report No. 30, 55th Parliament - Early childhood education: Implementation of the recommendations in the Auditor-General’s Report 19: 2015-16

 

 

Follow up audit: Tourism industry growth and development (Report 14: 2014-15)

The Auditor-General's report was tabled and referred to the committee on 5 May 2015 for consideration.

The Auditor-General’s report followed up on the progress and effectiveness of implementation of earlier recommendations by the Auditor-General in the report Tourism industry growth and development (Report 3: 2012-13), tabled on 27 November 2012. That performance audit of the three public sector entities responsible for tourism made twelve recommendations to the Department of Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games, Tourism Queensland and Events Queensland. In July 2012 the latter two entities were combined to create Tourism and Events Queensland as a statutory body.

Subsequent to the Auditor-General’s 2012 report, in March 2014 the former State Development, Infrastructure and Industry Committee of the Legislative Assembly sought advice from the Minister about implementation of the 2012 performance audit recommendations.

The Education, Tourism and Small Business Committee considered the Auditor-General’s follow up audit report in June 2015. The committee decided that further action was not required and that it would not report to the Legislative Assembly on the follow up audit.

Oversight of recurrent grants to non-state schools (Report 12: 2014-15)

The Auditor-General’s report was tabled on 26 March 2015 and referred to the committee on 5 May 2015 for consideration. 

The Auditor-General’s report concluded that some non-state schools were getting more state recurrent grants than they were entitled to because they overstate their student numbers and, by doing this, obtain funding for non-eligible students. The report stated this was largely due to weaknesses in the statutory audit regime oversighted by the Non-State Schools Accreditation Board, and misalignment of the roles of the regulator and the funding body. The Auditor-General recommended changes in governance and audit verification arrangements, and clearer guidance to non-state schools about the annual student census.

The committee decided in May 2015 to monitor implementation of the Auditor-General’s recommendations.

The committee received a briefing from the Non-State Schools Accreditation Board on Wednesday 25 May 2016 - view transcript.

The committee tabled its report on 17 October 2016.

View:

Report No. 21, 55th Parliament - Consideration of Auditor-General's Report 12: 2014-15: Oversight of recurrent grants to non-state schools

 

 

Maintenance of public schools (Report 11: 2014-15)

The Auditor-General’s report was tabled on 26 March 2015 and referred to the committee on 5 May 2015 for consideration.

The Auditor-General’s report concluded that the Department of Education and Training was not maintaining schools to its own standards and requirements, the root cause of which was historical underfunding of maintenance. Given limited resources, the need to address backlogs means the Department of Education and Training is effectively locked into a cycle of reactive maintenance, when what the Auditor-General concluded is needed is adoption of preventative and predictive maintenance strategies. The Auditor-General’s report made five recommendations concerning: assessment of the condition of buildings and condition standards; reporting of savings; and implementation of a school asset maintenance program that balances preventative and condition-based assessment to prolong the life of assets and reduce maintenance costs.

The committee tabled its report on 16 September 2016, and tabled an erratum on 22 September 2016.

View:	Report No. 18, 55th Parliament - Consideration of Auditor-General's Report 9: 2014-15: Maintenance of public schools
View:	Erratum to Report No. 18, 55th Parliament

 

 

 

Results of audit: Education sector entities 2014 (Report 15: 2014-15)

The Auditor General's report was tabled and referred to the committee on 5 May 2015 for consideration.

The report provides the results of financial audits of 95 entities: public universities; university controlled entities; grammar schools and other education entities.

The Queensland Audit Office reported that it issued 47 unmodified audit opinions with one remaining opinion expected to be issued within legislative time frames. All financial statements in the education sector were reported to comply with the relevant Commonwealth and state legislative requirements and the Australian accounting standards.

In June 2015 the Committee considered the report. The committee agreed that no further action or report to the Legislative Assembly was required.

Results of audit: education sector entities 2015 (Report 18: 2015-16)

The Auditor-General's report was tabled and referred to the committee on 24 May 2015 for consideration.

All audit opinions were unmodified and financial statements were certified in the legislative time frames.

The committee agreed that no further action was required.

Managing the performance of teachers in Queensland state schools (Report 15: 2016-17)

The Auditor-General’s report was tabled on 28 April 2017, and referred to the committee on 9 May 2017 for consideration.

Officers from the Queensland Audit Office briefed the committee in private on 24 May 2017.

The committee held public briefing about implementation of the Auditor-General’s recommendations by the Department of Education and Training on 9 August 2017 - view program and transcript. 

The committee tabled its report on 8 September 2017.

View:	Report No. 40, 55th Parliament - Managing the performance of teachers in Queensland state schools (Auditor-General's Report 15: 2016-17)
View:	Interim government response
View:	Government response
View:	Government update

 

 

 

 

Terms of reference

Standing Order 194B provides that:

The Committee of the Legislative Assembly shall as soon as practicable after a report of the Auditor-General is tabled in the Assembly refer that report to the relevant portfolio committee(s) for consideration.

The following reports have been referred to the Committee: