Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. Quite obviously, when the question was being answered—amongst the barrage of noise—we went and found the information. And that information actually does not come from my department; it comes from the Department of Human Services. When we had that information, it was precisely as we delivered in the actual answer to your question, and we put that precisely on the record—that is, as before: there were 4,957 applications; 4,098 were granted; 453 were rejected; and 4,011 are receiving payment.

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