Chris Ellison (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

I think it is fair to say that the only thing certain about an IT system is the lease payments. I see Senator Ludwig having a good laugh there. We have a capacity to take over and do things manually, as the Customs officers on the primary line have been doing in the past, and we can do that quite easily. You cannot say that any system is totally foolproof. If there were an outage of the system of some sort, Customs would have no trouble in manually processing people. It might not be as quick, but it would still do the job and border integrity would remain.