Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

Can I just get a confirmation? So you, Senator Gallagher, on behalf of the minister, are saying that the worker registration provisions will be in place before they would have been in place had they been contained in this bill, which obviously would have been two years from the royal assent of this bill—bearing in mind this bill could well have been in place six months ago, which means it would only be 18 months? Nonetheless, can you guarantee that they will be in place by then? The other thing I raise is that, in my previous question, I asked you who you had consulted with, and you didn't answer that part of the question.