My second successful amendment related to the introduction of recognised accounting standards and making T&R to action what they had already been instructed to do. This is a subject I have raised several times in the States and I set out my speech below. Sir, I take members back to…
I laid a successful amendment against the policy letter that meant that, instead of delaying a review of the power and resources required by the new Scrutiny Management Committee until its formation in May 2016, that this should be done by the current scrutiny committees. My speech is below. Sir, Whilst I…
The States debated the FTP following it’s closure in October 2014. This followed the PAC’s review as per my earlier post. My speech during the debate is set out below. Sir, on behalf of the Public Accounts Committee, I would firstly like to pay tribute to all those across the…
In May 2015 the Public Accounts Committee published its Report into the financial costs and benefits of a sample of major claimed savings within the Financial Transformation Programme (FTP). The PAC acknowledged KPMG’s finding that the savings were largely validated and the chosen Consultant (Capita) was correctly remunerated for…
In April 2015 the PSD Minister advised the States that the department was not now going to introduce an in-vessel composter due to the costs being prohibitive. I asked the following question of the Minister. His reply is given below. Although the ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ campaign has been very…
I made the following speech in respect of the proposed deregulation of Guernsey Electricity and Guernsey Post, with a strengthening of the shareholder role. Sir, I’ll speak briefly. I support the findings of this report. I’ve always found it odd that States owned entities should need to be regulated…
I made the following speech regarding T&R’s proposals for the SCIP at the July 2014 meeting. Sir, 3 weeks ago we were asked to make a binary choice between executive and committee government and told that the Policy & Resources Committee would just be a co-ordinating Committee, with the States…
I made the following speech in relation to the requete on Island Wide Voting in July 2014. Sir, like many here I’ve always favoured an element of Island Wide Voting. However, I can’t find myself supporting the requete as the system adopted I believe would be completely unworkable and, perversely,…
I made the following speech in relation to the GFSC’s accounts for 2013 in July 2014. Sir, Over the last 2 years myself and others have made comments in this Assembly about the inexorable rise in costs and fees at the GFSC. Although it has taken time I do believe…
I laid an amendment on behalf of the Public Accounts Committee seeking independent scrutiny of the decision to provide £650k to the Health and Social Services Department to complete the EHSCR project. The big guns were against us that day, not wanting to be scrutinised. It is funny that members…