Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

The minister is obviously not going to answer those questions for us. It is going to be a very frustrating and pointless 50 minutes, I imagine, if this is the way we are going to go. Perhaps it means that the minister just does not have these answers. The vast array of people here from the department will no doubt provide the same information that has already been provided to Senate estimates. If that is the case, the processes for Senate estimates and consideration in detail, where the ministers answer, really do not fulfil the separate roles that they are supposed to. In any case, I hope that the departmental advisers who are here are able to provide a little more information.

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