Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

The figures that I have given you, Senator Wong, are not my figures at all; they are taken from the Catholic Health Australia submission on the ETS and from submissions to you. I do not like the suggestion that we just throw figures up in the air and hope they come down somewhere. These are figures provided by Catholic Health Australia from their aged-care homes and from the hospitals. So do not accuse me of just throwing figures around, because I am not. They are very precise figures, but if you want to deny them that is up to you. I know this is very uncomfortable for you, Senator Wong, but I would like to take you to your statement on food processing. I listened very closely to that, and it seemed to me that if a food processor wanted to become part of a program that would give him some sort of compensation and he did not meet the criterion of electricity or—