Mal Brough (Longman, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

As a proportion I certainly could not say. Like anything, if you have delays you have the potential, but that is all it is at this stage—the potential for there to be an increase. Like anything, it has the potential to increase. On the other hand, you might find that technologies improve as well, so I could not say categorically. All the budget papers are are a breakdown in your expected costs and your expected expenditure in running departments and running programs et cetera. So that is what we have budgeted for at this stage, and no doubt there will be contingencies within the budget portfolios for various matters. I will just see if I have anything else for you—about 80 per cent of the cost is for the access card, $480 million out of about $580 million.

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