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

In parliament earlier today the member for New England referred to an exchange of conversations between his office and mine about the disallowance of the Chronic Disease Dental Scheme, which is the subject of debate in this House today. I want to correct the record by saying and reconfirming my position that my office had contacted the office of the member for New England. I understand that there is some debate about this issue within his office as well, and I respect the fact that we have been able to have a civil discussion since that point, but I want to reconfirm the fact that my office had contacted, several times, the member for New England's office and there had been no response to that request for us—

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