Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the Senate for the con­venience of having both senators ask me questions on these issues sequentially and I also thank Senator Eggleston and Senator Fisher for the courtesy of advising me ahead of time. In relation to Senator Eggleston's questions, I am advised that of the 844 questions that Treasury received through the various estimates to which he referred there are only 55 outstanding. Whilst I acknow­ledge that there is a deadline for the provision of these answers, I would suggest to the opposition that they consider the very large amount of work that Treasury receives as requests for information from—