Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

The government obviously has considered a whole lot of information and a whole lot of advice. We made a judgement on what we believed was the best way forward to strengthen growth, create more jobs and help ensure that everyone across Australia had the best possible opportunity to get ahead. We are very confident that this measure, which invests in the future success of Australia's small businesses, will be successful but of course, as with all of these things, ultimately Senate estimates committees will have the opportunity down the track to review performance against forecasts, and against the objectives that we have outlined. I suspect that we will have that conversation at a later day. Having said that, I do not think that any of this should be an excuse to delay consideration of this bill; none of this should be an excuse to not facilitate the efficient passage of this very important package through the Senate today.