GETTING the job done fast, rather than right, may have led NSW bureaucrats to unwittingly withhold nearly 700 pages of documents from parliament relating to a corrupt former minister.
The NSW upper house launched an inquiry in March into whether ex-mining minister Ian Macdonald and his department were involved in a cover-up in 2009, when parliament issued a call for papers linked to the now-infamous Mount Penny coal tenement.
The missing documents were discovered when the parliamentary file was compared with exhibits tendered at the Independent Commission Against Corruption, which was investigating Mr Macdonald and fellow former Labor MP Eddie Obeid.
An external investigation into the missing documents has found "no evidence of impropriety or the intentional withholding of documents by Departmental staff".
Instead, the review by Maddocks Lawyers found staffers might not have realised they were being asked to include emails among the documents they presented to parliament in 2009 because the standing orders referred to "papers" or "documents".
The Maddocks report noted that staffers were working to a tight deadline.
"As one of the persons (involved) explained, to the extent that there was an informal policy on responding to Standing Orders and other requests for information, it was simply to comply on time," the report said.
"The focus was on providing a response on time rather than on ensuring the production was complete."
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