Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence Science, Technology and Personnel) Share this | Hansard source

For the sake of putting a senatorial hat on and seeking a supplementary in the same space: Minister, in answering the question 'Where well the extra $2.77 billion come from that has to be absorbed?' you indicated that $1.5 billion will be redirected to the DCP, which was going to be used for conversion, and for the rest will just have to wait and see and trust the government. Frankly, that is hilarious considering the $25 billion worth of cuts. But let us just park that to one side. The $1.5 billion in the DCP that was previously committed for the conversion, which you are now looking to redirect, was never actually committed in real terms but was always to be absorbed within the DCP. It was never actually committed. Minister, can you point to me exactly where that $1.5 billion was committed?

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