❓ A parliamentary question regarding the Premier's response to an Auditor General's report on computer security in government agencies. The questioning focuses on perceived inaction and management incompetence.
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GOVERNMENT AGENCIES — COMPUTER SECURITY — AUDITOR GENERAL’S REPORT
I have a supplementary question. Why should we believe that the Premier will fix it now when he has not done so in the last two years; and, is this not about complete management incompetence rather than industrial espionage? Mr C.J. BARNETT
I have a supplementary question. Why should we believe that the Premier will fix it now when he has not done so in the last two years; and, is this not about complete management incompetence rather than industrial espionage? Mr C.J. BARNETT
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The member tries to imply that nothing is being done or has been done. That is simply not true. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Read the report! Some of the agencies have gone backwards by 10 per cent! Mr C.J. BARNETT : If the member wants to answer her own question or make a speech, please do so; there is ample opportunity. The idea is that if a member asks a question, I will try to answer it. Work has been done and is being done. I am not for a moment suggesting that the situation is good enough, because it clearly is not. I accept what the Auditor General has found, and we will add to the measures being taken. Please, do not believe for a moment that this government and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and others have not been acting on security issues; they have been, and they continue to do so. We will heighten the activity.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: The member tries to imply that nothing is being done or has been done. That is simply not true. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Read the report! Some of the agencies have gone backwards by 10 per cent! Mr C.J. BARNETT : If the member wants to answer her own question or make a speech, please do so; there is ample opportunity. The idea is that if a member asks a question, I will try to answer it. Work has been done and is being done. I am not for a moment suggesting that the situation is good enough, because it clearly is not. I accept what the Auditor General has found, and we will add to the measures being taken. Please, do not believe for a moment that this government and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and others have not been acting on security issues; they have been, and they continue to do so. We will heighten the activity.
The member tries to imply that nothing is being done or has been done. That is simply not true. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Read the report! Some of the agencies have gone backwards by 10 per cent! Mr C.J. BARNETT : If the member wants to answer her own question or make a speech, please do so; there is ample opportunity. The idea is that if a member asks a question, I will try to answer it. Work has been done and is being done. I am not for a moment suggesting that the situation is good enough, because it clearly is not. I accept what the Auditor General has found, and we will add to the measures being taken. Please, do not believe for a moment that this government and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and others have not been acting on security issues; they have been, and they continue to do so. We will heighten the activity.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : Read the report! Some of the agencies have gone backwards by 10 per cent! Mr C.J. BARNETT : If the member wants to answer her own question or make a speech, please do so; there is ample opportunity. The idea is that if a member asks a question, I will try to answer it. Work has been done and is being done. I am not for a moment suggesting that the situation is good enough, because it clearly is not. I accept what the Auditor General has found, and we will add to the measures being taken. Please, do not believe for a moment that this government and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and others have not been acting on security issues; they have been, and they continue to do so. We will heighten the activity.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : If the member wants to answer her own question or make a speech, please do so; there is ample opportunity. The idea is that if a member asks a question, I will try to answer it. Work has been done and is being done. I am not for a moment suggesting that the situation is good enough, because it clearly is not. I accept what the Auditor General has found, and we will add to the measures being taken. Please, do not believe for a moment that this government and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and others have not been acting on security issues; they have been, and they continue to do so. We will heighten the activity.
Work has been done and is being done. I am not for a moment suggesting that the situation is good enough, because it clearly is not. I accept what the Auditor General has found, and we will add to the measures being taken. Please, do not believe for a moment that this government and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and others have not been acting on security issues; they have been, and they continue to do so. We will heighten the activity.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: The member tries to imply that nothing is being done or has been done. That is simply not true. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Read the report! Some of the agencies have gone backwards by 10 per cent! Mr C.J. BARNETT : If the member wants to answer her own question or make a speech, please do so; there is ample opportunity. The idea is that if a member asks a question, I will try to answer it. Work has been done and is being done. I am not for a moment suggesting that the situation is good enough, because it clearly is not. I accept what the Auditor General has found, and we will add to the measures being taken. Please, do not believe for a moment that this government and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and others have not been acting on security issues; they have been, and they continue to do so. We will heighten the activity.
The member tries to imply that nothing is being done or has been done. That is simply not true. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Read the report! Some of the agencies have gone backwards by 10 per cent! Mr C.J. BARNETT : If the member wants to answer her own question or make a speech, please do so; there is ample opportunity. The idea is that if a member asks a question, I will try to answer it. Work has been done and is being done. I am not for a moment suggesting that the situation is good enough, because it clearly is not. I accept what the Auditor General has found, and we will add to the measures being taken. Please, do not believe for a moment that this government and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and others have not been acting on security issues; they have been, and they continue to do so. We will heighten the activity.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : Read the report! Some of the agencies have gone backwards by 10 per cent! Mr C.J. BARNETT : If the member wants to answer her own question or make a speech, please do so; there is ample opportunity. The idea is that if a member asks a question, I will try to answer it. Work has been done and is being done. I am not for a moment suggesting that the situation is good enough, because it clearly is not. I accept what the Auditor General has found, and we will add to the measures being taken. Please, do not believe for a moment that this government and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and others have not been acting on security issues; they have been, and they continue to do so. We will heighten the activity.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : If the member wants to answer her own question or make a speech, please do so; there is ample opportunity. The idea is that if a member asks a question, I will try to answer it. Work has been done and is being done. I am not for a moment suggesting that the situation is good enough, because it clearly is not. I accept what the Auditor General has found, and we will add to the measures being taken. Please, do not believe for a moment that this government and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and others have not been acting on security issues; they have been, and they continue to do so. We will heighten the activity.
Work has been done and is being done. I am not for a moment suggesting that the situation is good enough, because it clearly is not. I accept what the Auditor General has found, and we will add to the measures being taken. Please, do not believe for a moment that this government and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and others have not been acting on security issues; they have been, and they continue to do so. We will heighten the activity.
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