Hmm...you maybe right "K" yet another in a long line of Senate inquisitions - where we get to observe obfuscating public servants thumbing their noses at the RRAT committee Senators...
However judging from the QON index for Sup Estimates (see
here from about page 92 onwards) it is quite obvious that the non-partisan alliance of RRAT Committee Senators is growing and their anger is universally palpable...
Now although we all know by now that M&M and his cronies will drag out answering - this long list of very damning QONs - till just before the Additional Estimates in February 2015, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that many of the QONs to ASA will be put to Ms Staib tomorrow arvo...
That alone could make the nearly 2 hour Senate inquisition of reasonable entertainment value...
Examples:
QON 228/Gallacher/ Medium Works Projects:
1. When did Civil Aviation Safety Regulation Part 139 subpart H come into effect?
2. When was it subsequently decided to assess airfields around the country for compliance of CAS Regulations?
3. When was the need brought to the Board’s attention?
4. What decisions were made at Board level regarding compliance assessments, builds and refurbishments?
5. When did consultation with CASA begin and what was the nature of that negotiation?
6. When did consultations with the Pricing Consultative Committee begin and what was the nature of that consultation?
7. Who won the successful tender for each of these medium work projects?
8. I note that the Airservices Australia Board meeting approved works for Ballina and Coffs Harbour at the September 2013 meeting. At which meetings were the other projects approved?
9. Did the Board consider the Newman and Gladstone projects given the tenders closed on the same day (14 June 2014) as the Ballina and Coffs Harbour at this meeting?
10. What caused the delay in the execution of the Ballina and Coffs Harbour contracts until March 2014 given the tenders closed on 14 June 2013?
11. Do the costings include cost of fitouts for projects where it is noted that after the completion date “… this will be followed by a fitout of the structure”?
12. Who is the successful tenderer for each project?
QON 230/Gallacher/ Corporate Credit Cards:
1. How many corporate credit cards have been issued to directors and employees of Airservices Australia?
2. What are Airservices Australia’s credit limits on these issued credit cards?
3. What are Airservices Australia’s protocols pertaining to the use of the corporate credit cards?
4. What are Airservices Australia’s protocols for inadvertent or deliberate misuse of corporate credit cards?
QON 231/Gallacher/ Civil Aviation Regulation Part 139:
1. In reference to Civil Aviation Regulation Part 139 Subpart H that came into effect in 2003, what is the date that the 11 projects (discussed in the Senate Estimates Hearings in October 2014) clicked over 350,000 passengers?
2. How many of those projects were not completed within the 12 month statutory timeframe?
QON 237/Xenophon/ Breakdown of Communication Incident:
I refer to the breakdown of communication incident described in REPCON AR201300090.
1. How much time elapsed between the time the breakdown of communication occurred and the time the breakdown was detected and corrected?
2. Can Airservices provide a copy of the Airservices Corporate Integrated Reporting and Risk Information System report mentioned in the REPCON?
3. Can Airservices provide a copy of the preliminary investigation it conducted into the Incident?
4. Can Airservices provide a copy of the radar recording of the Essendon Tower, Melbourne Approach & Melbourne Tower areas of responsibility between the time the breakdown of communication occurred and the time it was detected and corrected?
5. Can Airservices provide a copy of the radar recording of the Essendon Tower, Melbourne Approach & Melbourne Tower areas of responsibility between the time the breakdown of communication occurred and the time it was detected and corrected?
6. Can Airservices provide a copy of the Essendon Tower, Melbourne Approach & Melbourne Tower Airways Operations Journals for the day of the Incident?
7. Can Airservices provide a copy of the Essendon Tower, Melbourne Approach & Melbourne Tower Local Instructions & any associated Letters of Agreement laying out coordination and control responsibilities between those parties?
{Link for
AR201300090}
Comment: That is the most amount of QONs related to aviation that I have ever seen for Supplementary Estimates??
MTF...
