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

During question time, the Minister for Finance and Deregulation claimed that my colleagues and I were lying about his statement that ‘dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s did not matter’. I refer the House to the interview between David Speers and Lindsay Tanner yesterday on Sky News PM Agenda. David Speers said:

In the rush to stimulate jobs at the time of the global financial crisis when it hit, in hindsight would not some pause have been worthwhile to look at what some of these problems could result in?

Lindsay Tanner:

Obviously, those things have been taken into account. The minister—

meaning the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts—

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—

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