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It is ludicrous that we cannot be told of consultants’ fees
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From Barry Breuilly.
THE pomposity of Chief Minister Frank Walker rather beggars belief.
A recent request by the JEP under the States Code of Practice on Public Access to Official Information was unceremoniously dismissed by the Chief Minister.
The newspaper had asked for information on how much the States have spent on consultants’ reports and travel for politicians and civil servants over the past three years.
‘No,’ came back the reply, unless the JEP put their hands into their own pockets to pay for the collation of the data requested.
What utter nonsense. On a whim, consultants’ reports are commissioned by various ministers and at enormous expense.
However, when the public legitimately demand to see where their taxes are being spent and by whom, a plethora of feeble excuses are placed in their path, thus effectively debarring them from gaining such information.
Senator Walker states that the cost in extracting the figure would be prohibitive and could not be produced until September 2008.
You cannot convince me that there is not a lower paid scribe in each department that could not press a few buttons on a very expensive computer and ‘hey presto’ – figures.
A better bet is that if the figures were released they would undoubtedly show that they were not only exorbitant but the majority of costs could not be justified when scrutiny is applied.
Is Senator Walker really saying that each time that the public requests information he or she has to pay for it? Ludicrous. We are entitled to know, and at no cost to the individual, apart from a very small percentage of our own taxpayers’ revenue.
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