Andrew Southcott (Boothby, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Primary Healthcare) Share this | Hansard source

As I said earlier during the debate on the second reading, this is an uncontroversial bill and the opposition do support regulatory reform of the TGA. The opposition have not sighted the government amendments. This was a bill which was only introduced in the first or second sitting week of the parliament, and we are not in a position to comment, having not even seen the amendments. On what the Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing has said, they sound uncontroversial. If they have been circulated I do not have a copy in front of me. I just make the point that this bill was referred to the Main Committee as an uncontroversial bill, but the opposition are not in a position to provide any comment on the government’s amendments to its own bill—for which there was considerable time to have properly drafted when it was first introduced—because we have not sighted the government amendments.

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