Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

There is only one more sentence and then I am finished. I repeat that Lindsay Tanner said:

Obviously those things have been taken into account. The minister and his department have been on the ball on the implementation challenges, but we have had some difficulties in this program. But I don’t think it’s right to say that we should have sat back and said, ‘Well, hang on a second, let’s focus on some of the dotting of the i’s and crossing of the t’s,’ because we’re in a crisis situation.

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