Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Consistent with what I indicated the last time we met in the Senate in the committee stage, the questions about who provides the needs assessments, who the needs assessors are and the framework that they will apply are all questions that are not determined in the legislation. They must be determined consistent with the process of developing the needs assessment tool, which is work that can only be undertaken upon passage of the bill and that work will be done in a way that is transparent and consultative and engages all of the elements of the community who must be engaged in that work. When it's concluded, it will make its way back here as well as a disallowable instrument.