Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Green for her question and I thank the senators and House of Reps members on the Public Accounts and Audit Committee for their work on the report. The report was tabled in the House yesterday, obviously. The government will appropriately consider the recommendations in the report and then we will, as process dictates, respond to the parliament. The committee considered a number of programs as part of its inquiry. As I've said, we will consider the report in the usual manner and make a government response.

In respect of the recommendations the ANAO made and the Public Accounts and Audit Committee report made yesterday, the government has already taken a number of actions with respect to the application of the government grant guidelines and their alignment. Sport Australia accepted all three recommendations that the ANAO made to them in the ANAO report. The government accepted the recommendation that was directed to the government and has put in place measures to effect all of the recommendations of the ANAO report. The recommendations in the report handed down yesterday had a very similar context, so we will consider those matters and we will report to the parliament in the usual way.