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

Perhaps I could deal with the previous question first. There's an additional $25 million, I think this says, including staff allocation for the Australian Taxation Office, over the forwards. It is judged to be more efficient to do this as one payment, although, as you'll see in the legislation, there's provision for an interest calculation to be made to ensure that it does not disadvantage recipients, even though it is more efficient for the government to do it in one payment.