Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Health) Share this | Hansard source

Just very quickly with respect to this matter, this particular action is one that was actually requested during the second reading debate on the legislation. While the opposition is not opposing this reference through the motion, we are quite concerned that the government did not actually listen to senators during the debate when we mentioned in our contributions that this was a course of action that we would consider important in the deliberations on this piece of legislation.