SPEAKER Shane Rattenbury has received all relevant paperwork from the Liberal MLA staffers at the centre of a controversy over incomplete time sheets.

Today Chief Minister Katy Gallagher demanded a “forensic investigation” into the overdue paperwork, dating back to 2009, and accused Liberal Leader Zed Seselja of  “a systematic and arrogant refusal to comply with the law”.

The controversy stems from documents made public through Freedom of Information  that reveal Canberra Liberals staff had neglected to complete the relevant paperwork to declare leave and time-in-lieu. The documents also revealed some of the staff’s leave time included “electioneering” during the 2010 Federal election campaign.

At lunchtime, Speaker Shane Rattenbury told a press conference that all documents required by his department had been received and it was no longer a compliance issue.

He said, as the documents reveal, most matters were resolved to a point, but there were “a series of ups and downs”.

He said what made it most serious was that the issue had continued for so long, the Clerk of the Assembly Tom Duncan had to write a formal letter to Seselja to request the outstanding documents.

Chief Minister Katy Gallagher has arranged to meet Mr Rattenbury later today to discuss the “forensic examination”. Mr Rattenbury said they would discuss a number of options for an investigation including getting the Auditor-General involved.

Gallagher said she only “very recently” discovered the problem with the declaration of leave within the ACT Liberals but believes the Assembly has the responsibility as custodians to investigate what could be “thousands of dollars of ACT taxpayers’ money which is unaccounted for”.

According a statement from Liberal Leader Zed Seselja, the staff affected had worked “many hundred of hours of unpaid overtime every year including after hours, on weekends and public holidays”.

“That said, it is unfortunate that there was such a delay in having forms submitted from the staff to the human resources department,” he said.

“Further it is regrettable that the resolution of this matter took a significant period of time.”

The statement said it would be important to note the delay “was directly affected by a significant personal tragedy experienced by a staff member”.

“I would ask everyone to consider and have sympathy for this staff member,” he said.

Mr Seselja said he was “satisfied that all these issues have been resolved”.

“It is publicly known and common practice for staff from all parliaments to take time off from work to volunteer for other campaigns,” he said.

“This was done openly at the time and staff were on leave volunteering. In this instance records were kept however they were submitted late and I accept that this should have not occurred.”