House debates Questions without Notice
Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction
Terri Butler Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Environment and Water
2:43 pm
My question is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. I refer the minister to his claim that he did not ask for a compliance officer from the Department of the Environment and Energy to be present at his grasslands meeting and his confirmation that a compliance officer was there. If it wasn't his idea to have a compliance officer there, whose was it? Did the Treasurer ever advise the minister that the compliance officer was present at the request of the Treasurer?
Angus Taylor Hume, Liberal Party, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction
The department determines who comes to these meetings. Let me be very clear: I didn't ask for or, indeed, even know that a compliance officer was present at the meeting.