Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Absolutely, Senator Parry. And then of course the Prime Minister, in his usual smarty pants way, turns around, when he is asked, ‘Did the Prime Minister approve of the terms of the offer?’, and says, ‘No and no’. We can almost see the smarmy manner in which he told the House of Representatives that. But then he had to come back. He obviously checked and then came back and gave a clarification. We were then told that the Prime Minister’s staff, suddenly, regularly attend these meetings.

When I asked the question in May, that committee had only met twice. We are entitled to know when that committee has met and every time the Prime Minister’s staff attended. In the end, we need to know precisely who made the offers. Who formulated this unique offer, this special deal, which has effectively been a bribe to get these people off the vessel? Because, in the end, what we have seen over—