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

I'm about to speak off the top of my head here, but no. I wouldn't have thought the department would have modelled potential complaints that would come. Modelling is a technical term, so I would say there hasn't been any modelling done. Your question more broadly is whether the department has a view, perhaps, on complaints that might be lodged under the code of conduct and the number of them. I think that would be difficult to forecast. I'm not sure how the department would do that, and I don't believe that they have done it. I believe they haven't done it in a modelled sense, which would require you to run particular assumptions through the model to get to an outcome. But even in a preparatory sense, if you put in place a code of conduct and complaints are lodged, you would have to respond to those complaints. But I'm not sure that you could predict the volume of those complaints or how they would be managed.