Aaron Violi (Casey, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer to the government's decision to commit $940 million of taxpayers' money to the American company PsiQuantum without holding an open tender process. Has the Deputy Prime Minister or his office met with PsiQuantum's lobbyist, his former chief of staff Lidija Ivanovski or the Treasurer's former senior staffer Gerard Richardson or arranged or facilitated any such meetings with any other minister or their staff?

Richard Marles (Corio, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The decisions around the funding of PsiQuantum have all occurred in the appropriate way in accordance with all the processes leading up to the budget. There were appropriate national security assessments done in relation to this investment. Again, that was undertaken through all the mechanisms of the cabinet and the cabinet's committee processes. All the meetings that have occurred in the process of this have happened in accordance with the cabinet code of conduct.