David Crisafulli promises real-time health data and housing fund changes in budget reply
The government had spent at least $423m on the big four consulting firms in the past five years, or $234,000 a day, the LNP leader told parliament on Thursday., which was critical of the government’s overreliance of consultants.
He said “this is a line in the sand” and promised to reduce the reliance on consultants and “empower the public service like never before”.Crisafulli said he would boost the public service by improving procurement processes, directing money away from the big consulting firms and back into the public service, and require consultants to show how they would build capacity in the public service before being awarded work.
In other pledges, he promised to improve transparency in the health system by making health data available in real time within 100 days of the election. Crisafulli said a victims’ commissioner would be appointed within a month of taking office, where victims of crime could raise concerns about how their case has been handled.
He also said the government’s Housing Investment Fund would be only be used to deliver new social housing stock, to help drive down supply pressures.
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