Money generated from speed and red light cameras needs to be allocated in a more transparent and accountable manner, WA's Auditor General has found.
The report, which was tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, was prompted by the significant increase in the amount of money going into the Road Trauma Trust Account due to a change in legislation.
"Formerly it was $12 million now it's up to $84 million," Mr Murphy said.
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He said the process for allocation of funds and evaluation of
the effectiveness of the projects for which the funds were used needed
to be improved, "[to] make sure the funds are actually spent in the best
way possible"."The AG comes to the conclusion that there is no proper process for the making of recommendations on road safety, no proper processes for monitoring implementation of decisions on road safety, that the state's major plan, Towards Zero, is not properly evaluated and there is no master plan for it."
But Road Safety Minister Liza Harvey said the report had found that practices merely needed to be tightened up.
"I think it's important that it hasn't found anything alarming, he's just said that we need to do things a bit more efficiently," Mrs Harvey said.
"It's important to me that people have confidence with the process in place."
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