The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has provided the following answer to the honourable member's question:

The Commonwealth has contributed $1.2 million to the national Asian honeybee eradication program, which is 50 per cent of the government costs of the nationally cost shared program. The Commonwealth also provided funding to the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, which produced a report on "Estimating the Potential Public Cost of the Asian Honeybee Incursion", at a cost of $5,000.