Report No. 10, 57th Parliament - Consideration of Auditor-General Report 14: 2019-20—Evaluating major infrastructure projects

Report

The committee tabled its Report No. 10 - Consideration of Auditor-General Report 14: 2019-20—Evaluating major infrastructure projects on Monday, 21 June 2021.  The government response was tabled on 4 January 2022.

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Role of the Auditor-General

The role of the Auditor-General is to provide Parliament with independent assurance of public sector accountability and performance. This is achieved through reporting to Parliament on the results of its financial and performance audits.

About the Auditor-General Report

View:Auditor-General Report 14: 2019-20—Evaluating major infrastructure projects

This report considers whether Building Queensland effectively and efficiently led and/or assisted agencies to deliver robust business cases for major infrastructure projects and provided agencies with expert advice about infrastructure.

The report contained six recommendations. 

For Building Queensland, recommendations included improving the design and application of frameworks for developing business cases, publishing assessment criteria for infrastructure pipeline reports and improving internal infrastructure knowledge and capability.

For Building Queensland and the then responsible department, now Department of State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning, recommendations included working together to:

  • assess the merits of developing both the infrastructure pipeline and State Infrastructure Plan, and
  • review and clarify Building Queensland’s role and obligations in fulfilling what is required under the Building Queensland Act 2015, to enable it to more effectively manage its functions.

Resolved by Committee

The Committee of the Legislative Assembly initially referred this report to the former Economics and Governance Committee for consideration on 21 May 2020. The inquiry lapsed on dissolution of the 56th Parliament in October 2020. This committee resolved to consider the report on 19 April 2021.

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