Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek to make a personal explanation.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the member for Kennedy claim to have been misrepresented?

Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, I do.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Kennedy may proceed.

Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I was accused in the House and on national television of having achieved nothing by way of dams. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said work is to be starting on the Hughenden irrigation project, the Big Rocks Weir and the engineering plans for Hell's Gate Dam in the life of this parliament. Either the minister is wrong or the Prime Minister is lying. In the same period of time, the last six years, the NAIF and the national water fund, under this minister, were allocated $5,000 million and $540 million respectively. In six years, under this minister, only $38.5 million of the NAIF's $5,000 million has been spent, and in six years not a single dam, not even a small weir, has been built. In six years not even a single dam engineering plan has been drawn up.