Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I think Senator McDonald would know that we agreed to that as part of our election campaign, and the comments of Minister King that she referred to reflect that. There is a range of other spending around that program. I think in the budget it was funded as part of a broader package with other elements in it, and we are currently working through all the details around that. We want to make sure that there are appropriate business cases and due diligence and that the spending is the right amount of spending that should be allocated to that. That is the work that I've been reflecting on for the last question times here, about doing an assessment essentially that every dollar that was committed in the previous government's last budget is actually quality spending going where it's needed. That's the work we are doing.