The listing of meetings between Tribunal members and external stakeholders is available by expanding the sections below. Where months are not included, there were no external meetings held.
2025
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January
| Stakeholder | Meeting Date | IPART Attendees | Stakeholder Attendees | Meeting Purpose |
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Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) |
15 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART CEO |
Secretary Deputy Secretary, System Reform |
General catch-up and to discuss Out-of-Home-Care review |
|
Department of Primary Industries (DPI) |
16 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART CEO |
Secretary |
General catch-up |
|
NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT) |
23 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART CEO |
Chairperson CEO Director, Programs |
Discuss IPART Annual Report |
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February
| Stakeholder | Meeting Date | IPART Attendees | Stakeholder Attendees | Meeting Purpose |
|
Regulators Advisory Panel |
10 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART CEO IPART staff |
Executive Director Regulatory Operations, NSW EPA
Director, Environmental Health, Health Protection, NSW Health
Manager Public Health Preparedness, Water Unit, NSW Health
Executive Director, DCCEEW Water |
Regulators Advisory Panel meeting |
| Sydney Desalination Plant |
11 |
Carmel Donnelly Sharon Henrick Jonathan Coppel Darryl Biggar IPART CEO IPART staff |
Incoming Chair CEO CFO GM Operations GM Strategy and Commercial Head of Regulation |
Site visit |
|
Essential Energy |
12 |
Carmel Donnelly Sharon Henrick Jonathan Coppel Darryl Biggar IPART CEO |
Essential Energy Board Regulatory Committee members |
Essential Energy Board Regulatory Committee Meeting |
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March
| Stakeholder | Meeting Date | IPART Attendees | Stakeholder Attendees | Meeting Purpose |
|
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) |
6 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART CEO |
Secretary |
Quarterly meeting |
|
Member for the North Shore |
7 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART staff |
Felicity Wilson MP |
Discuss special variation process |
|
Review of maximum fares for rank and hail taxi services |
10 |
Carmel Donnelly Sharon Henrick Darryl Biggar Jonathan Coppel IPART CEO IPART staff |
Public Event |
Public Hearing |
| Review of Solar Feed-in Tariff Benchmark Range | 11 |
Carmel Donnelly Sharon Henrick Darryl Biggar Jonathan Coppel IPART CEO IPART staff |
Public Event | Public Hearing |
|
Minister for Families and Communities and Minister for Disability Inclusion
Department of Community and Justice |
11 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART staff |
Minister Kate Washington A/Deputy Secretary, Child Protection and Permanency A/Deputy Secretary, System Reform DCJ Executive Director, Child & Family DCJ |
Discuss Out-of-Home-Care draft report |
| Australian Energy Regulator | 12 |
Jonathan Coppel IPART CEO |
AER Board Member | Briefing by AER on Default Market Offer 2025-26 Draft Determination |
| Independent Review Office | 13 | Carmel Donnelly | Independent Review Officer | Introduction with the new IRO |
| Broken Hill outage investigation | 17 |
Jonathan Coppel IPART CEO IPART staff |
Parliamentary Inquiry | IPART attendance at Parliamentary Inquiry on the electricity outages affecting Far West NSW in Oct 2024 |
| Australian Energy Regulator | 20 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART staff |
AER Board Member | General catch-up |
| Cabinet Office | 24 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART CEO |
Secretary | Discuss current IPART Reviews |
| Local Government NSW | 25 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART CEO |
President | Discuss local government financial sustainability and an update on IPART latest reviews |
|
Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI)
|
27 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART CEO |
Secretary, DPHI Executive Director, Sector Development OLG |
Discuss local government issues, crown land rents for communication sites and water pricing reviews and growth planning |
| The Country Mayors Association of NSW | 28 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART staff |
Conference attendees | Presenting at Country Mayors Conference |
| WaterNSW | 31 |
Carmel Donnelly IPART CEO |
Chair CEO |
Discuss draft Expenditure Review reports for WaterNSW Bulk water services |