❓ Mr. Buswell questions the Housing and Works Minister about a contract awarded to Alan Piper, a former Director General, highlighting a previous retirement payout and perceived past failures. The Minister confirms the contract was awarded through an open tender process.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND WORKS - ALAN PIPER CONSULTING
(1) Can the minister confirm that in October last year the Department of Housing and Works engaged Alan Piper Consulting to conduct an internal strategic review? (2) Can she confirm that the contract awarded to Mr Piper was worth more than $80 000? (3) Can she confirm that this is the same Alan Piper to whom her government gave a management-initiated retirement payment worth $276 000 when he was forced out of the position of Director General of the Department of Justice? (4) Why has the minister given a plum government contract to a failed former bureaucrat who oversaw a series of fiascos in the Department of Justice? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
(1) Can the minister confirm that in October last year the Department of Housing and Works engaged Alan Piper Consulting to conduct an internal strategic review? (2) Can she confirm that the contract awarded to Mr Piper was worth more than $80 000? (3) Can she confirm that this is the same Alan Piper to whom her government gave a management-initiated retirement payment worth $276 000 when he was forced out of the position of Director General of the Department of Justice? (4) Why has the minister given a plum government contract to a failed former bureaucrat who oversaw a series of fiascos in the Department of Justice? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
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I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
(2) Can she confirm that the contract awarded to Mr Piper was worth more than $80 000? (3) Can she confirm that this is the same Alan Piper to whom her government gave a management-initiated retirement payment worth $276 000 when he was forced out of the position of Director General of the Department of Justice? (4) Why has the minister given a plum government contract to a failed former bureaucrat who oversaw a series of fiascos in the Department of Justice? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
(3) Can she confirm that this is the same Alan Piper to whom her government gave a management-initiated retirement payment worth $276 000 when he was forced out of the position of Director General of the Department of Justice? (4) Why has the minister given a plum government contract to a failed former bureaucrat who oversaw a series of fiascos in the Department of Justice? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
(4) Why has the minister given a plum government contract to a failed former bureaucrat who oversaw a series of fiascos in the Department of Justice? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
(1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
(2) Can she confirm that the contract awarded to Mr Piper was worth more than $80 000? (3) Can she confirm that this is the same Alan Piper to whom her government gave a management-initiated retirement payment worth $276 000 when he was forced out of the position of Director General of the Department of Justice? (4) Why has the minister given a plum government contract to a failed former bureaucrat who oversaw a series of fiascos in the Department of Justice? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
(3) Can she confirm that this is the same Alan Piper to whom her government gave a management-initiated retirement payment worth $276 000 when he was forced out of the position of Director General of the Department of Justice? (4) Why has the minister given a plum government contract to a failed former bureaucrat who oversaw a series of fiascos in the Department of Justice? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
(4) Why has the minister given a plum government contract to a failed former bureaucrat who oversaw a series of fiascos in the Department of Justice? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
(1)-(4) Yes, I can confirm that the member is correct; Alan Piper was awarded a contract. With regard to his being awarded a contract, I understand that a tender process was undertaken by the department. It was not a matter of our government or cabinet appointing Alan Piper to any position or awarding him or his company a contract. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I understand that the department ran an open tender process and that Alan Piper was the successful tenderer. Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
Mr T. Buswell : Is that like the ones in education? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that anything improper has gone on here, he is quite wrong. The fact of the matter is that there was work to be tendered for, and the proposal and the price obviously stacked up as the best tender. Those people who were in a position to award the tender awarded it to Mr Piper.
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