Ms Laura Burke:

We certainly have expertise. We have 411 staff with expertise. There are a few different models. One of the models is for once-off types of work, such as the waste characterisation which is the reason I mentioned it. In a value for money context, that is something we would do only once every large number of years. To get the resources to do that into the agency on a temporary basis and then to have that work finished would not represent value for money. It is a better use of money to outsource that. In other areas, it is not a question of not having the resources but it is more appropriate that things would be done, for example, through the local authority or the county councils with regard to resource efficiency. It is a deliberate model in order to do that. Were the Deputy to ask me whether we have enough staff to do all of the work we have to do, like every other public service body I would say, "No", in all honesty. 

We currently have a workforce plan with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment to resource new work as it comes down the track.