The terms of reference for the Committee's inquiry is the full text of, and any circumstances connected with, ANAO Report No.16 (2015–16), 2014-15 Major Projects Report.

Background
On Thursday 11 February 2016 the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit resolved to review ANAO Report No. 16 (2015–16), 2014-15 Major Projects Report, in detail.

Under section 8 of the legislation establishing the JCPAA, the Public Accounts and Audit Committee Act 1951, one of the duties of the Committee is to ‘examine all reports of the Auditor-General (including reports of the results of performance audits) that are tabled in each House of the Parliament’ and ‘report to both Houses of the Parliament, with any comment it thinks fit, on any items or matters in those … reports, or any circumstances connected with with them, that the Committee thinks should be drawn to the attention of the Parliament’.