Ms Rosemarie Tobin:

There were three recommendations from the C and AG. The first, which is the one that was on our own procedures, was that we needed a stronger spot-checking process. That has been put in place and Jennifer Peyton's team are running that. It was also recommended that we needed a stronger compliance checklist with local authorities in our overall framework so that it was very clear what the local authority was responsible for and what they were responsible for checking in the NGOs, and we needed to strengthen the grant agreement arrangement with the local authorities. Those changes have been put in place over the course of this year. Those were the main governance recommendations from the C and AG. The other piece was around the continued oversight from the oversight group. That office had a concern that the oversight group was not getting enough proof of the improvements that were being made in the PMVT. The oversight group took that on board and we were getting further evidence of the work that was being done in the PMVT. The conversation with AHBRA and the expert going in to the PMVT was in consideration of that recommendation as well. Overall, we have done that internal review and we have had the C and AG review looking at those processes.

Regarding the CCMA report, the Minister has accepted the recommendations and has asked my unit to put an implementation plan in around it. We are at the early stages of that. We were anxious to make sure for those ones that could impact the funding for this year that we would bring them in this year. We are working to put the operational funding into 2025's funding.