Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

My apologies—the contingency reserve. I am not aware of a provision being made in the contingency reserve. I am happy to take that on notice. Again I would point out to the member for Dickson that the question of whether or not a provision should be made is in a sense premature because, although the government is committed to the introduction of an emissions-trading scheme by 2010, the question of the very short-term impact of that scheme on the spending—whether it is the government or, indeed, any other organisation—is at this stage not possible to predict because of the details of the scheme not having been determined. So I doubt whether there has been any provision made in the contingency reserve on that front, but I am happy to take that question on notice.

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