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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2015-12-02" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Public Service Employees</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Public Service Employees</heading>
        </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Mr MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-12-02">
            <name>Public Service Employees</name>
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        <text id="2015120224ad9f73231c4eeaa0001461">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition)</by> (24 July 2015).  (Estimates Committee B)</inserted>
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      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4622" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.E. CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education and Child Development</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Public Sector</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-12-02">
            <name>Public Service Employees</name>
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        <text id="2015120224ad9f73231c4eeaa0001462">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4622">The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for the Public Sector):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>When a chief executive or agency head formally declares an employee excess, the details of that employee are entered onto the 'Excess Employee Database'.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2015120224ad9f73231c4eeaa0001464">
          <inserted>The Office for the Public Sector is responsible for the administration of the database, including the appropriate authorities to public sector agency representatives to access the database information. Public sector agencies are responsible for entering and ensuring the information is up-to-date for employees on the database.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2015120224ad9f73231c4eeaa0001465">
          <inserted>The database records the number of public sector employees who have been formally declared excess by a chief executive or agency head.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2015120224ad9f73231c4eeaa0001466">
          <inserted>As at 30 June 2015 there were 39 employees formally declared excess and recorded on the database.</inserted>
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