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Chapter 16 - Committees
Action on committee
reports
Where committees recommend action by the Senate, for example, in
relation to legislation before the Senate, such recommendations may be, and
usually are, swiftly adopted by the Senate. Most recommendations, however,
involve new legislation or administrative action by the executive government,
and therefore cannot be carried out by the Senate acting alone. Ensuring
expeditious and considered government responses to such recommendations is
therefore important. Most Senate committee recommendations, if not adopted in
the short term, are frequently reflected in public policy in the long term,
partly because they often embody the considered views of relevant institutions
and persons or of the community as a whole.
Apart from the
adoption of recommendations, Senate committee inquiries influence the conduct
of public affairs by providing persons and organisations with an interest in
issues an opportunity to be heard in the parliamentary forum, and for problems
and proposed solutions to be aired and debated. Committee inquiries also
increase the knowledge and expertise of senators as legislators and participants
in the framing of public policy.
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