Paul Scarr (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Multicultural Engagement) Share this | Hansard source

In terms of the functions of the immigration assessment authority, that was the body specifically tasked to deal with that massive blowout in protection visa claims that arose under the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government, when the Labor Party was previously in government. Based on the evidence I ran through earlier, we're now in almost exactly the same scenario in terms of the backlog of cases before, now, the ART but without the Immigration Assessment Authority to actually assist with processing that backlog. Is that correct?