Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

In relation to the emissions-trading scheme, the government’s intention obviously is to start the scheme from 2010. Businesses now are understandably concerned that they have no detail from the government in terms of their own out years budgeting for their firms. Why has the impact of the emissions-trading scheme on the budget not been included in the forward estimates and what do you say to business when they are looking for that detail as they start to plan now?

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