❓ Mr Love questions the Minister for Road Safety about implementing the Auditor General's recommendations regarding the Road Trauma Trust Account. The Minister responds that recommendations have been significantly implemented and outlines spending and program evaluation.
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ROAD TRAUMA TRUST
ACCOUNT
721. Mr R.S. LOVE to the Minister for Road Safety:
I refer to the recent tragedies on Western
Australian roads and the concerns of the Auditor General of Western Australia
regarding the administration of the road trauma trust account outlined in its
seventh report of 2023–24. Has the minister implemented the Auditor
General's recommendations in full; and if not, why not?
ACCOUNT
721. Mr R.S. LOVE to the Minister for Road Safety:
I refer to the recent tragedies on Western
Australian roads and the concerns of the Auditor General of Western Australia
regarding the administration of the road trauma trust account outlined in its
seventh report of 2023–24. Has the minister implemented the Auditor
General's recommendations in full; and if not, why not?
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Listening to the questioning today,
road safety goes across multiple portfolios. It goes across transport,
obviously road safety and police, but it also touches health and emergency
services. I am proud to be the Minister for Road Safety, with this government
spending record amounts of money on road safety in Western Australia. In the
first part of the member's question he talked about whether road safety
should be with the Minister for Police or, as in other states, with the Minister for Transport. I note that in the
opposition's own shadow cabinet Hon Martin Aldridge is the
Minister for Road Safety and Hon Peter Collier is the Minister for Police.
Several members interjected.
Mr D.R. MICHAEL : Shadow
ministers!
Several members interjected.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Members!
Mr D.R. MICHAEL : I am proud of the work of the Road
Safety Council. The Office of the Auditor General made three recommendations
last year. They have all been significantly or completely implemented. A main
one was about evaluating programs that the road trauma trust account money is
spent on. That has been implemented. The only work left to do is that when some
of those programs come up for renewal, they will have to be evaluated at that time. A key thing we are trying to do is
make sure that those programs have some quantifiable key performance indicators and outcomes.
We will now spend $25 million a year from the road trauma
trust account on the regional road safety program for things like audible edge
lines and run-off shoulders, obviously with contributions from elsewhere in
government, including the federal government. Those programs have enormous
impact on our regional roads. I think the Nationals WA supported that program
at the last election. We know it should continue. The Road Safety Council is
full of experts sitting on it, some from state government but many from
organisations outside it like the Western Australian
Local Government Association and the RAC. I look forward to their continuing
recommendations on how we can spend the road trauma trust account money to
better continue our road safety impact in Western Australia.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : That concludes —
Dr A.D. Buti interjected.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Minister! That concludes question
time. If we can keep working on reducing the time for responses and limiting interjections, we might be able to get
through question time a little bit quicker. We nearly got it done in
under an hour today, which is a great effort.
road safety goes across multiple portfolios. It goes across transport,
obviously road safety and police, but it also touches health and emergency
services. I am proud to be the Minister for Road Safety, with this government
spending record amounts of money on road safety in Western Australia. In the
first part of the member's question he talked about whether road safety
should be with the Minister for Police or, as in other states, with the Minister for Transport. I note that in the
opposition's own shadow cabinet Hon Martin Aldridge is the
Minister for Road Safety and Hon Peter Collier is the Minister for Police.
Several members interjected.
Mr D.R. MICHAEL : Shadow
ministers!
Several members interjected.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Members!
Mr D.R. MICHAEL : I am proud of the work of the Road
Safety Council. The Office of the Auditor General made three recommendations
last year. They have all been significantly or completely implemented. A main
one was about evaluating programs that the road trauma trust account money is
spent on. That has been implemented. The only work left to do is that when some
of those programs come up for renewal, they will have to be evaluated at that time. A key thing we are trying to do is
make sure that those programs have some quantifiable key performance indicators and outcomes.
We will now spend $25 million a year from the road trauma
trust account on the regional road safety program for things like audible edge
lines and run-off shoulders, obviously with contributions from elsewhere in
government, including the federal government. Those programs have enormous
impact on our regional roads. I think the Nationals WA supported that program
at the last election. We know it should continue. The Road Safety Council is
full of experts sitting on it, some from state government but many from
organisations outside it like the Western Australian
Local Government Association and the RAC. I look forward to their continuing
recommendations on how we can spend the road trauma trust account money to
better continue our road safety impact in Western Australia.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : That concludes —
Dr A.D. Buti interjected.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Minister! That concludes question
time. If we can keep working on reducing the time for responses and limiting interjections, we might be able to get
through question time a little bit quicker. We nearly got it done in
under an hour today, which is a great effort.
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