House debates Bills
Parliamentary Service Amendment (Parliamentary Budget Officer) Bill 2011; Consideration in Detail
Scott Morrison Cook, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
8:58 pm
The parliamentary secretary at the table is suggesting that somehow I am referring to the Treasury. I am referring to the Parliamentary Budget Office that you want to set up and to make captive to the government's forecasts and captive to the government's information.
This place should be free of the executive. I know that those on that side of the House want to have the executive dominate the parliament and dominate all the information that we might have access to. That is what this bill is about, and you just do not get it.
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