Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The general role of the Speaker in relation to the parliamentary service is to--
(a) decide major policies to guide the operation and management of the parliamentary service; and
(b) prepare budgets; and
(c) decide the size and organisation of the parliamentary service and the services to be supplied by the parliamentary service; and
(d) be the employing authority, for the Legislative Assembly, of parliamentary service officers and employees deciding their remuneration and conditions of service; and
(e) supervise the management and delivery of services by the parliamentary service.
(2) The Speaker must ensure that the remuneration, conditions of employment and other benefits given to the Clerk, and parliamentary service officers and employees, are comparable to those of State officers and employees who have similar duties.