Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I rise to speak on the point of order. I acknowledge that I was not disparaging the minister in any way in terms of the answer to the principal question. It was the Ombudsman’s report that indicated the eight per cent increase in complaints. I was simply reflecting that he made no attempt at all to answer the question in my first supplementary. An efficiency dividend of 3.5 per cent had been implemented and the outcome of that was that reviews completed were down by four per cent and Centrelink decision appeals were up by 6,000, and he made no attempt to answer the question. I was not reflecting upon the minister; I was simply reflecting on my disappointment that he failed completely to answer the question.