Andrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The substantive answer to that will be given in the response to the question by the member for Isaacs. I make the point that there were deliberate decisions taken at an earlier stage and budget appropriations were established. So, in an accounting sense, clearly there will be some savings; some of the accounting for that whole expenditure on detention centres will take account of decisions that have been reversed. They are savings against the budget, because they are appropriations that had been taken account of at an earlier stage.

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