Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, , 57:25 to 59:54
The committee reviews the number of Senior Executive Service (SES) staff based outside of Canberra. Discussion covers the travel requirements for non-Canberra based deputies and the breakdown of staff across regional offices.
Topics: Public service staffing, Travel and event costs
Speakers: Miss Victoria Anderson, Senator Ross Cadell, Senator Glenn Sterle, Unknown Speaker, Hon Richard Colbeck
>> Senator, when you say senior executives, you mean all of our senior executive service? About 100. Or are you talking about the deputies and myself?
>> Deputies himself.
>> Um so one is remote uh amongst the deputies and myself. >> Sorry, not remote. Non-Cambra.
>> Right. Do you keep that maybe table lower if you know? If you don't know, I don't need to go deep.
>> We we might do. I'll just see if anyone in the team um we have we have I guess do you have an exact number Tim so I'm not guessing not I think it would be sort of a dozen or so SCES outside CRA in our locations in uh Perth uh can Brisbane Melbourne
>> is that where their offices
>> that's where we have offices so they're all office
>> bas your senior level was is their office where they are and not in CRA or
>> uh yes they are >> right so Melbourne
>> how how often would that person come to
CRA Uh uh well it's set out in the determination of set a sort of a maximum amount of expenditure for travel to CRA.
>> Our staff get 120 nights in CRA that sort of thing.
>> Yes. So it's more just expenditure and I think um that can be varied from time to time. So I just keep an eye on it and make sure it's reasonable. As a deputy secretary you are expected to be in CRA quite a bit for like this >> um and and parliament sitting and and meeting with stakeholders and and key sort of meetings. So um that person does
travel to CRA quite a bit. All I he said debt said we're at that level. He didn't want to identify too far or I I don't know.
>> I'm sure it's Mr. Low. I'm sure he'd be very happy to I'm sure he would be very happy to
>> Um what percentage of his staff or department come from wherever he's based? Then
>> uh I'd have to take that on notice, Senator. He has a lot of staff in CRA, but I think there are um a decent number
of staff. Can I get that breakdown between I don't know >> what I don't want to know what town or but that breakdown between number of staff where that base is and here would be good to know.
>> Yes, that's fine.
uh now that you've identified him I probably want don't want to go into cost so I won't go through the other questions. I might put something on notice.
>> Okay. No problem.
>> Okay. Thanks for help. >> Uh Senator Cobic did you find anything else you missed or should
>> Senator Canal just did it.
>> All right. Brilliant. So that's corporate.
>> There's other corporate stuff, but I think we can move on if we can move. I think outcome one might take a little longer than
>> Yep. In your hands, deputy chair. Appreciate that. So for the corporate matters, Miss Anderson, if you can release your people there, and we'll >> um representatives for outcome one, please.