Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I think it is incredibly important that we clearly understand that there is the capacity for the oversight and the proper delivery of an outcome with the facilities that are currently at our disposal, and we in the government are prepared to put more to it if it is required. But the idea that we would start a royal commission for a royal commission's purpose, which has no power to prosecute, which has not the same powers as what we see—

Mr Fitzgibbon interjecting—

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