Linda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am a little surprised. That's why I wanted to confirm that DTA is not part of the task force, given it is a tier 1 project. After you mentioned that this morning, I went and checked. The DTA for the Essential aged care information and communication technologies system maintenance and enhancements (Future Aged Care ICT Platform), their latest assessment in Delivery Confidence Assessments—in how confident DTA is that it can be delivered on time, on spec and in accordance with the procurement rules—was medium to low. Minister, I appreciate your confidence in the advice from the department. But all of the indicators and the experience in delivering these projects, including DTA's and the department of health's own assessments of the ability to go through all of that on such a large program—after you talked about that this morning I had a look at what DTA has said and looked at previous audit reports for health and the Digital Transformation Agency and there is nothing there—given it is a such a short timeframe and their own assessments, what gives you confidence that they can perform something that I don't think has ever been done before in five to six months?