Scott Ryan (Victoria, Liberal Party, Special Minister of State) Share this | Hansard source

Briefly, Senator Xenophon, given the sheer scale of the number of travel and expense claims that the department processes, which are in the hundreds a day, I think it would be virtually impossible to account for that in any way. But I will say that, as we move to the independent authority which we will be debating next and as we move on to future legislation that will fully implement some changes as announced by the Conde review, as Senator Farrell outlined, we do expect to see substantial efficiencies in this process as we move to a monthly disclosure regime because the process at the moment is rather antiquated and reflects very old IT that is particularly labour intensive.

The CHAIR: The question is that amendment (1) as moved by Senator Xenophon on sheet 8077 be agreed to.

Bill agreed to.

Bill reported without amendments; report adopted.