Kate Ellis (Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Can the Deputy Prime Minister assure the House that there are no documents which confirm that the government considered cutting funding to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan?

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

Once more: they would know full well that the $1.77 billion is legislated. It is in the legislation. So I imagine that they want to talk to the member for Watson, who wrote the plan. If you have got any problems, there is the gentleman to speak to; he is about four seats down from you. He would also inform you—maybe he would or would not know—that, if there were any changes to the $1.77 billion, it would be brought into here. It is part of the legislation. So, really, you should be addressing your question to the architect of the issue, who is the member for Watson—and there he is.