The Chairman of the Special Parliamentary Committee on Public Sector Reform and Service Delivery and Northern Province Governor, Garry Juffa announced the receipt of the Independent Payroll Audit that was conducted by an independent auditing company, Deloitte. During the Governor’s speech, he mentioned that the report tabled to the SPC Sector Reform & Service Delivery stated that this particular report was a completion of a mammoth task that they were pleased to announce to the people of Papua New Guinea and this was the completion of the payroll audit. “This effort had commenced in 2014, however it had received very little success or it had not progressed much, until the Marape Government came in and formed the committee.” Juffa stated that one of the first roles of the committee was to look at the payroll blowout, which over time has constituted almost 30% of the Country’s budget, which was shocking and for any economy is truly unsustainable. The committee decided that this was an important matter that needed attention and the organization engaged to carry out this huge task was a reputable international organization, Deloitte, who were engaged through a very transparent procurement process, according to the Governor.