Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator, for your question. I will take the details on notice and get back to you. The Regional Jobs and Investment Packages help diversify regional economies, they stimulate economic growth and they deliver sustainable employment in regional communities right across the country. It's a program that has made a great deal of difference in regional communities to ensure that we're backing them. We're backing their economic stimulation through that program.

The ANAO report acknowledges that, for an investment of $220.5 million in grant funding, the program has leveraged an estimated additional $467.8 million in project costs to support projects to drive economic growth in regional Australia. So it's been very, very useful in leveraging local dollars and nous and providing jobs across regional communities.