Bill Heffernan (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, in the consideration of this political fix—even Craig Knowles owns up to that: it is the best deal they could get politically, nothing to do with science—what consideration has been given to the impact on the aquifer of the works and the various water acquisition buybacks, given that we have not completed the study into the interconnectivity between the aquifers and the rivers? What consideration has been given in this bill and the use of this money to the impacts on the various aquifers that are connected to the various rivers?