Departmental Staff

In reply to Mr GRIFFITHS (Goyder) (28 July 2016). (Estimates Committee B)

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Child Protection Reform, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for Consumer and Business Services, Minister for the City of Adelaide): I have been provided the following advice:

The Planning and Development Directorate of DPTI currently employs 130.9 staff to work across the range of portfolio responsibilities, including (but not limited to) development assessment, building policy, development plan policy, strategic and regional planning and demographic analysis.

The transition from the Development Act 1993 and into a new system under the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 will mean that DPTI staff will be reallocated into delivering the new system. A dedicated team of 29 currently work on delivering the new system, which includes a team building the new electronic platform (e-planning portal), as well as a team working on the creation of the new instruments and governance arrangements. The six team members currently working on delivering the e-planning solution are counted in a different directorate (Customer and Information Services Directorate) and as such do not form part of the 130.9 FTE count as at 30 June 2016.

Seven vacancies have recently been filled in the Planning and Development Directorate.