Fed: Govt to push on with IT program: Fahey

AAP General News (Australia)
01-12-2001
Fed: Govt to push on with IT program: Fahey

CANBERRA, Jan 12 AAP - The federal government will push ahead with its contentious
IT outsourcing program following an internal public service report backing it made public
today.

Finance Minister John Fahey tonight released the 10 recommendations made by a three-person
committee appointed to review the outsourcing program which is three times over budget
and two years behind schedule.

The report backed the program but has recommended changes including more power to the
independent department heads and the gradual phase-out of the organisation …