David Pocock (ACT, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Sorry, Chair. To characterise a question that relates to what this legislation could enable as speculation doesn't seem to cut it. We've got Minister Bowen's department there and Minister Plibersek's department there. This has an answer. That's why the ministers are on the big bucks. They're there to answer these questions and be across the details of this.

We're being asked to vote on this legislation, and I am wanting to know from the government if this new piece of legislation that ratifies the London protocol—and I understand there will be a whole range of things that have to happen for a project to go ahead—enables projects to meet their obligations under the safeguard mechanism? Should this pass, these are two interacting pieces of legislation. Can they meet those obligations by exporting, using this sea-dumping bill, the equivalent of their scope 1 and 2 emissions?