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

Those provisions were made in the October budget and have been factored into the figures that were released as part of the economic forecast for the October budget. Obviously in relation to the NRF that has passed the parliament, with Rewiring the Nation, we are moving on that through the Powering the Regions Fund. The Housing Australia Fund hasn't passed the parliament, so we won't be in a position to establish that fund until it passes the parliament. There will be some expenditure, I would imagine, once those funds are up and running. We'll report that in the normal way, as you would expect, once those decisions have been taken. But I would say that the actual provision for those has been factored into the budget and the economic forecasts outlined in October. (Time expired)