She has prepared a paper for the Privileges and Procedures Committee saying that ‘shadow scrutiny’ should follow the Budget process from start to finish, and that a shadow scrutiny panel should be able to commission independent economic research.’Apart from a few notable exceptions, most amendments were doomed to failure as much from lack of background evidence and research as anything else,’ said the Deputy.
‘Even the successful amendments, it could be argued, were not backed up with the necessary rigorous economic data.’.The Privileges Committee, of which Deputy Bridge is vice-president, will lodge their proposals on shadow scrutiny and shadow public accounts committee at tomorrow’s States sitting.
