Senate debates

Wednesday, 24 July 2019

Bills

Future Drought Fund Bill 2019, Future Drought Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2019; In Committee

11:09 am

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Minister, I'll go to the Bills Digest. I don't expect you to have it in front of you, but on page 4 it talks about payments into and out of the Future Drought Fund Special Account. Halfway down the page, it starts with:

There are only three purposes for which an amount may be debited from the FDF Special Account …

I can probably pre-empt that you'll point me to Senate estimates as being where I will find the information I'm seeking, but, in relation to where the money can be accessed, dot point 2 says:

    It goes on to say that money can be taken out by:

      Do we have a figure of what that is?

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