Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The Deputy Prime Minister will resume his seat. I think the Manager of Opposition Business can resume his seat too. At this point I can anticipate where the Deputy Prime Minister is going, which is back seven years. The question was very specific. It asked whether the Deputy Prime Minister could confirm that one grant had been received and another one hadn't. Within that context, he's been very relevant up until this point, but he doesn't have the ability to go down a track of looking at other grants. The Deputy Prime Minister has the call.

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