Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

To rephrase the question, Mr Speaker: I refer the minister to her $1.7 billion blow-out in the Primary Schools for the 21st Century program, and the amendment to the program guidelines in the last 10 days to require project managers to seek value for money in delivering these projects. Why has it taken six months and, potentially, billions of dollars of unnecessary waste for the government to pay lip-service to the concept of value for money?

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