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18. Give the Auditor General the necessary resources to properly discharge the
duties of the department in carrying out forensic performance and value
for money audits on all Ministries, Departments and Agencies as they see
fit. This includes a review of salary scales and employing the full
establishment of 200 staff members instead of the 106 now employed.
The Auditor General’s Department must also be made independent of the
Ministry of Finance in the budgetary process with Parliament approving its
budget directly.
19.
Provide the remaining $15 million required to complete the Report of the
Commission of Inquiry into the collapse of the financial sector.
The Minister needs to tell this nation the true reason why we have not had
the Report of the FINSAC Commission of Enquiry. It has been 4 years since
the commission completed its deliberations.
It could not be an issue of cost. A comparison of hourly costs of that
commission and the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry will show that
the costs of the former was far less.