Committee Assistance Departments

The Committee Assistance Departments (Government and Education; International Affairs and Environmental Planning; Social and Financial) are jointly responsible for organising and supporting all committee activities with regard to scrutinising legislative and policy proposals, as well as for supporting plenary debates on bills and policy documents.

They are also tasked with assisting participants of the Senate and the House of Representatives in interparliamentary meetings. In addition, they oversee the cohesion between committee activities and plenary sittings. The main focus of the work of the three Committee Assistance Departments lies on supporting committee activities.