Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I am prepared to repeat that guarantee. As you would be aware—or maybe aware—Senator, through the President, is that we deliver that housing through NPARIH, and NPARIH, as I have said, is not subject to any savings. It is not a part of the savings regime.

But I did say yesterday—and perhaps it is an opportunity for me to seek a clarification in this regard: in an answer to yesterday's question time, I stated in relation to the National Partnership on Remote Indigenous Housing that we will no longer be continuing the national partnership and we are now having negotiations through a bilateral round. What I intended to say was that we will be negotiating separate bilateral agreements under the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing. But the short answer to your question is: of course I stick with my words of yesterday.