❓ Dr. Nahan questions Premier McGowan on the lack of implemented Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) promised in 2016 to measure government effectiveness. McGowan responds that work is ongoing, citing efforts to address methamphetamine use and prioritising getting the state back on track.
AnsweredQoN 647Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
MCGOWAN GOVERNMENT —
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
647. Dr M.D. NAHAN to the Premier:
Before I ask my question, I welcome
the staff and students from St Damien's Catholic Primary School from
the member for Dawesville's electorate who are in the Speaker's
gallery.
I refer to a keynote speech the now
Premier made on 8 December 2016, in which he said that he would introduce key
performance indicators for his government, if elected, and that these KPIs
would include, and I quote —
� reducing the use of methamphetamines;
reducing the incidence of family and domestic violence; or attracting more
overseas tourists and students �
Also, and I quote —
These
KPIs will not only measure the effectiveness of government, it will define my
success as Premier �
Why, after 545 days in office, two
budgets and his machinery-of-government changes, has the Premier not developed
any KPIs so that Western Australians can measure his effectiveness?
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
647. Dr M.D. NAHAN to the Premier:
Before I ask my question, I welcome
the staff and students from St Damien's Catholic Primary School from
the member for Dawesville's electorate who are in the Speaker's
gallery.
I refer to a keynote speech the now
Premier made on 8 December 2016, in which he said that he would introduce key
performance indicators for his government, if elected, and that these KPIs
would include, and I quote —
� reducing the use of methamphetamines;
reducing the incidence of family and domestic violence; or attracting more
overseas tourists and students �
Also, and I quote —
These
KPIs will not only measure the effectiveness of government, it will define my
success as Premier �
Why, after 545 days in office, two
budgets and his machinery-of-government changes, has the Premier not developed
any KPIs so that Western Australians can measure his effectiveness?
AnswerView source ↗
Every day I prepare for question
time, and admittedly I spend 15 or so minutes thinking about the questions the
opposition might ask me. Again, I did not pick that one.
Several members interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN : I just cannot pick it! Yesterday, one
of them was about the book Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A
New Earth —I could not pick that one. I cannot predict what the
Leader of the Opposition is going to ask; he is very unpredictable.
The work on this issue is ongoing.
Obviously, it involves KPIs for the directors general of government
departments, and the work surrounding that is an ongoing process. We have been
in office for 18 months, and we cannot do everything at once, admittedly.
Getting the state back on track was one of our principal focuses, and I think
most of the evidence is there that that is occurring over the term of this
government. Members will see each and every minister doing an enormous number
of things in each of their portfolios, and that all takes time. But that is one
of the things we will work on.
One of the issues the member
mentioned in his question was methamphetamine. Obviously, dealing with meth has
been an important priority of this government. Considering the Leader of the
Opposition mentioned it, I will take him through it. We have two new drug
rehabilitation centres being put in place—two prisons devoted to
methamphetamine treatment for men and women. That is the first time that has
ever happened. And the —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for
Scarborough, your leader has asked a question —
Mr M. McGOWAN : He asks the
question; I provide the answer.
The SPEAKER : — he is
giving him an answer. Listen.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Exactly.
We also have a range of programs
around the state, the meth border force, life sentences for meth traffickers
and more powers for the Corruption and Crime Commission to tackle organised
crime. All those things have happened in the methamphetamine area, when for
eight and a half years under the former government, we saw headline after
headline about Perth being ''Meth City''—I recall that
one a few years ago. This government is putting in place all sorts of
initiatives in a whole range of areas. But we obviously have to work through
our commitments over the course of the four-year term, and that is what we are
doing.
time, and admittedly I spend 15 or so minutes thinking about the questions the
opposition might ask me. Again, I did not pick that one.
Several members interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN : I just cannot pick it! Yesterday, one
of them was about the book Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A
New Earth —I could not pick that one. I cannot predict what the
Leader of the Opposition is going to ask; he is very unpredictable.
The work on this issue is ongoing.
Obviously, it involves KPIs for the directors general of government
departments, and the work surrounding that is an ongoing process. We have been
in office for 18 months, and we cannot do everything at once, admittedly.
Getting the state back on track was one of our principal focuses, and I think
most of the evidence is there that that is occurring over the term of this
government. Members will see each and every minister doing an enormous number
of things in each of their portfolios, and that all takes time. But that is one
of the things we will work on.
One of the issues the member
mentioned in his question was methamphetamine. Obviously, dealing with meth has
been an important priority of this government. Considering the Leader of the
Opposition mentioned it, I will take him through it. We have two new drug
rehabilitation centres being put in place—two prisons devoted to
methamphetamine treatment for men and women. That is the first time that has
ever happened. And the —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for
Scarborough, your leader has asked a question —
Mr M. McGOWAN : He asks the
question; I provide the answer.
The SPEAKER : — he is
giving him an answer. Listen.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Exactly.
We also have a range of programs
around the state, the meth border force, life sentences for meth traffickers
and more powers for the Corruption and Crime Commission to tackle organised
crime. All those things have happened in the methamphetamine area, when for
eight and a half years under the former government, we saw headline after
headline about Perth being ''Meth City''—I recall that
one a few years ago. This government is putting in place all sorts of
initiatives in a whole range of areas. But we obviously have to work through
our commitments over the course of the four-year term, and that is what we are
doing.
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