Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport
1:20 pm
Mr Deputy Speaker, I seek leave to give a personal explanation.
Ross Vasta Bonner, Liberal Party
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport
Yes.
Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport
Today, in the debate on a private member's motion moved by the member for Berowra, the member for Berowra suggested that the funding for the F3 to M2 was not in the 2013 budget and that I had misled the parliament in suggesting that it was. For the benefit of the House, Budget Paper No. 3, on page 89, states very clearly:
In the 2013-14 Budget, the Commonwealth is contributing $400.0 million to fund the F3 to M2 tunnel in Sydney.
That was the basis of the subsequent intergovernmental agreement signed on 21 June 2013 between me and Duncan Gay, the New South Wales minister. I seek leave to table the budget paper.
Stuart Robert Fadden, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Defence
Leave is not granted, because we do not need the budget paper; we have it.
Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport
Obviously the member for Berowra cannot find it, so I was trying to help the Chief Government Whip.