Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I raise a matter of privilege under standing order 51. During question time on Thursday 12 May, in answer to a question from the member for Banks, the Minister for Mental Health and Ageing made the following statement:

The opposition has been out there suggesting, among other things, that this $2.2 billion is back ended. It is natural, of course, that transformative reform will involve an element of scaling up, but the parliament should be very clear that the two biggest injections of new money in this package are in year 1 and year 2, and the new money in year 5, out of the $2.2 billion, is just $50 million, about two per cent of the total package.

The budget document Delivering better hospitals, mental health and health services, on page 24, provides a table of programs and spending for new budget initiatives. That table shows that in year 1—

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