Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Macdonald, the answer to your question is essentially a logistical issue of building a new element to the system to fit this transitional arrangement as part of the process. My advice is that the average time for payments is in the order of six days, even using snail mail. It is essentially a logistical cost analysis of establishing and building a new system to operate during this transitional process for a relatively small number of people. It is considered to be more cost effective to operate it using what might be known as more traditional means.