Queensland's floods inquiry is on track to deliver answers about last summer's disaster before voters go to the polls, Premier Anna Bligh says.
The commission of inquiry has been holding extra hearings as it tries to get to the bottom of conflicting accounts about the operation of Wivenhoe Dam in the days before Brisbane and Ipswich were inundated.
Ms Bligh says the commission's final report is still expected to be handed down on March 16, before voters go to the polls on March 24.
"I look forward to the final report where hopefully we will see some of the answers that have perplexed people about the operation of the dam," she told reporters on Sunday.
"There's only one thing I want to know about the operation of the dam and that is the truth."
Ms Bligh thanked Commissioner Justice Catherine Holmes for her work.
"This commission did its best to leave no stone unturned," she said.
"When there was a suggestion they needed more hearings, that's what they did.
"When they heard concerns that they hadn't fully tested, they went and fully tested them.
"So let's see what they have to say when they reach their conclusions."
On Saturday, Justice Holmes defended the reconvening of the commission after media reports on the conflicting accounts of dam engineers.
It was not the commission's job to seek out culprits like the 1980s Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption, she said.
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