Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

The compliance arrangements are in place as appropriate through the usual agency and the usual processes. What I would say is that the bill that is in front of us deals with the extension of JobKeeper to the end of March 2021. We're not putting in place arrangements on an ongoing basis. In the scenario that Senator Lambie envisages where this goes on for years and years, which is a plausible scenario—I certainly accept that it's not an impossible scenario—the Senate will be required to reconsider any arrangements down the track to provide advice on the economy in that context at that point in time. We're not dealing here with legislation that puts in place an ongoing arrangement beyond the end of March. We're dealing here with an arrangement that is in place only until the end of March.