Senate debates

Tuesday, 10 August 2021

Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers

COVID-19: Income Support Payments

3:11 pm

Photo of Gerard RennickGerard Rennick (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Okay. I'm coming back to robodebt and that technology, albeit flawed. I've worked on many IT projects myself, and I can tell you that you can always take the cost of an IT project, double it and multiply it by three, because that's how much it will end up costing. I'm happy to take it on board. I would love to look at that robodebt stuff myself, because, having come from a systems implementation program, I'm sure there are ways we could fix the system. But we were trying to do the right thing. (Time expired)

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