Ian Macfarlane (Groom, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Can I go back to the minister’s statements about the EMDG Scheme and ask a couple of questions in relation to that. Firstly, how did he arrive at the figure of $50 million? Secondly, how did he arrive at the decision to put that not in the coming financial year but in the financial year after that and then have no more money available after that? If it is, as he suggests, on the basis of wanting to review through Mortimer—and I have never criticised the fact that you are conducting the review; I have simply stated that you are holding up policy formulation and certainty while you do that review—and the Mortimer review comes back and says that the EMDG is underfunded in the out years 3 and 4, do I take it from the minister’s earlier statements that he will make sure that there is money in those years 3 and 4?

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