Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, , 5:01:19 to 5:02:46
The department provides an update on the implementation of recommendations from previous Inspector-General reports, noting that 22 out of 48 recommendations have been closed.
Topics: Live animal exports, Animal welfare
Speakers: Speaker 30, Speaker 31
weeks. Um you might remember that we went over this last year as well. Um and the this by the this I mean the inspector general of live animal exports um report that was published in August 2024 on the department's performance in implementing the inspector general's recommendations from six prior reports that were published between 2020 and 2024. So it's been 5 and 1/2 years now. Um that report in 2024 found that out of 41 recommendations the department had only implemented 13 and in fact the inspector general disputed this number and said the actual number of recommendations that had been fully implemented were only six. So that's six out of 41 recommendations over 5 and a half years. How many recommendations have now been fully implemented?
>> Andrew Mc Andrew McDonald first assistant secretary senator. So we have now closed 22 of 48 recommendations made by former inspector generals >> and we publish on our website a list of how we've closed them and um also give commentary as how we're managing those recommendations which remain open. So half of them have now been completely >> uh 22 out of 48 have been closed by the department as have been um uh addressed to our um uh our best abilities.