Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

I did confirm yesterday that in my role as the Parliamentary Secretary for Government Service Delivery I did meet with departments, ministerial offices, who were involved in the delivery of the stimulus package. These meetings were designed to ensure strong reporting and lines of communication between Commonwealth agencies and state governments to provide feedback between agencies, governments and ministerial offices to ensure the rollout was proceeding smoothly and on time. Again, while the discussions did include risk to the Commonwealth and program delivery risk, they did not include fire or electrical hazard. I will need to go back and check my records as to who was at those meetings. To the best of my recollection, there was no member of the Prime Minister’s office there. There were obviously officers from the OCG, the Office of the Coordinator-General, present for a number of the meetings, but I will need to check my records.