Scott Ryan (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I note the budget papers described this as ‘a temporary timing divergence’. If the government does include the CPRS revenue but not the expenditure, does this not mean that the budget estimates significantly understate budget deficits from 2012-13 onwards? Further, if you do offset the CPRS expenditure as promised, will the net debt over the forward estimates period therefore increase from $188 billion to more than $200 billion?