House debates

Thursday, 16 February 2012

Personal Explanations

3:39 pm

Photo of Scott MorrisonScott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

I understand. In that article he made reference to comments that I had made regarding the coalition's costing to put a processing centre on Nauru, at less than a third of the costs of the government's proposal, with 600 more beds. He said in this article:

We now know the costing was done by a catering company. Morrison's claim that the company had been involved in building the Nauru facility is a blatant untruth.

I need to clarify this mistake by the minister, because I assume he did not mean it disingenuously. The coalition costing for re-establishing the processing centre on Nauru was completed by a company—

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