Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

It is an absolute honour to get a question from my shadow. Might I say it is going to be an absolute honour to answer it as well. We have already in our first tranche realigned $420 million of the Farm Finance Concessional Loans Scheme, which they were unable to get signed off by all of the states. On top of that, we put in $10 million for water infrastructure. We followed that up with a second drought package of $320 million, of which $280 million has been signed off by the Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the finance minister. QRAA is already able to lend that out, and they are lending it out through the tranches that have been made available to them within the $420 million. We have also made money available for wild dog control, and we have made money available for water infrastructure—

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