Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

To save time, I am going to put four questions to him very slowly and carefully and I challenge him to answer each and every one of them. Last night in estimates Senator Ruston, representing him, seemed to suggest that CropLife supports the relocation of the APVMA. I asked the minister: does he stand by that assertion? I ask him: how many staff have been lost to the APVMA since he first socialised his determination to relocate that body to his own electorate? Has he revisited the cost of the relocation? I think originally it was $24 million or so. Has he revisited that budget allocation and what is the revision? He is now hiding behind cabinet processes, but will he commit to releasing the cost-benefit analysis of the relocation to Armidale, once the cabinet has completed its deliberations?

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