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

Through you, Mr President, I will say this to Senator Cormann about the figures—and I will go back and check this because I do not have a comprehensive brief on the July position: my recollection, and it is only a recollection, is that we were anticipating quarterly instalments on the MRRT. If that is the case, you would not anticipate the first set of instalments to be paid until October. But, as I said, I will check that because I do not have a comprehensive brief on this issue. But I remind you again that we update our budget figures at each budget update and the mid-year review, and that is more than can be said for any costing that you have ever been involved in.