Chris Ellison (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice and Customs) Share this | Hansard source

I made it clear from the start that, if there were any storage costs occasioned by the transition that could be demonstrated, under existing policy Customs would meet them. The vast majority of the claims that have been made have related to storage costs. There have been claims registered with Customs. We are looking at them closely and the CEO is working with the industry on that. Can I say that in relation to the changeover we had overwhelming support from industry for this new system and were overwhelming urged for this to occur when it did, in October last year. You have to remember that the existing system could not endure for much longer and to leave it longer would have brought in other factors that could have had much more detrimental effects.