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P2 – “Which brings me full circle back to my original question who is responsible for the hold up and why the hold up? Also with an additional question; did that person/entity take advantage of the QoN numbering sequence issue because clearly the original Sen Sterle questions were submitted to the Dept and CASA as a total package?”

Good questions. Reading through the Sterle ‘questions’, you can see that they are ‘pointed’ – important questions, well all bar one. The three remaining unanswered are worthy of consideration and IMO demand full answers. Given the usual management of QoN and the ‘gender neutral’ answers routinely delivered, you could be forgiven expecting the usual drivel to be framed in a response. No Sir, not this time. We know from past experience how efficient the hard working Secretariat is; I can’t remember a time when they have dropped even the smallest ball, so you have to wonder – where are Sterle’s answers?

To me, it seems just a little too convenient; last estimates, Christmas break coming up fast, CASA budget and other matters surfacing; good time to say “Oh Whoops, sorry Senator, we’ll address those questions after the long break”. Of course by then impetus and interest has waned, focus is on the ‘new’ Inquiry and the questions will be consigned to the history dustbin.

Like trying to pin a fart to the wall – Good catch P2 – Choc frog + Gold star (you must have quite a collection by now).

Just to clarify so we're all on the same page the 2 unanswered QoN, which IMO the potential answers are of particular importance, appear in bold red in this extract from my previous post and links for those particular QoN now appear below the letter from MH:

Hi P2,
 
Apologies, I should have clarified in the below email.
 
The answers I sent through yesterday are everything the secretariat has received from the Department of Infrastructure so far. All the ATSB and Airservices QoNs have been answered.
 
However, of the seven CASA QoNs, there are still three outstanding. These are:
 
Senator Sterle

1) How many Flying Operations Inspectors are employed at CASA?
On average how many hours of flying currency training was completed by Flying Operations Inspectors last year?
How many applications for flying currency training put forward by staff have been rejected by CASA in the last year? On what grounds? 
Are CASA meeting the ICAO requirements to maintain the skills and currency of their staff to the same level held by industry?
How many Flying Operations Inspectors are 'not current' (ie training not up to date) on the aircraft types they are required to oversight?
 
2) Does CASA agree that there are serious issues with workplace culture?
What steps is CASA taking to improve workplace culture?
How many vacant positions exist in the technical workforce?
What is the impact on industry and aviation safety of these positions being unfilled?
When does CASA plan on filling these vacancies?
CASA's corporate plan recognises that staff lacking skill or not having the capacity to perform their role is a risk to aviation safety, why has CASA allowed so many vacancies to remain in the technical workforce?
 
Best regards,

MH.

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Okay so the sequencing issue has now been sorted and the two unanswered Sen Sterle (questions of interest) now appear as numbers #389 and #391; to which I have an assurance from MH that as soon as the Secretariat receives the answers he'll send me a copy (thank you once again MH -   ).

However this still doesn't address the issue of why those 2 Sen Sterle questions were not in the total package submitted by the Dept on the 6/12/19? The questions IMO seem fairly straight forward so what in hells, bells is the hold up; and who is responsible for the hold up?

 Which brings me full circle back to my original question who is responsible for the hold up and why the hold up? Also with an additional question; did that person/entity take advantage of the QoN numbering sequence issue because clearly the original Sen Sterle questions were submitted to the Dept and CASA as a total package?