Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday, during estimates, Senator Fiona Nash claimed before the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, 'In 2012-13 your minister budgeted to spend $6.8 billion and only ended up spending half—$3.6 billion—in that year.' Mr Speaker, that is not correct. These are the facts. Table 2.9 in Budget Paper No. 3, released with the 2012-13 federal budget, shows the allocation for financial year 2012-13 was $3,659,200,000. Table 41 in the final budget outcome document confirms that the actual spend on infrastructure in 2012-13 was $3,635,729,000. There was no underspend in the infrastructure budget in 2012-13, and I ask leave to table the two budget documents.

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