Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I'd been wondering where you got that $733 million figure from. What I said, unless I said the wrong thing—I was talking about $733,000 in funding per annum to rural and regional and remote services, not $733 million. That is per service. Just to repeat the point: the RN supplement provides up to $733,000 in funding per annum to rural and remote services in MMM areas 5 to 7, and it's paid at a higher rate to rural and remote services because of the increased costs that they will incur.