Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

Perhaps the minister could include in those investigations the total number of people. Whilst you have brought these amendments into this place to ameliorate the circumstances that both the opposition and the stakeholders have said very clearly are going to happen, I just want some calculations about what the effect of the amendments will be terms of those people on the exemptions. If you are going to include those people with illness, as you have said you are, there may well be some other areas or demographics within that, so perhaps while you are there you could address those as well. Some of the material may be somewhat dated, and I know that there are some new amendments and some material which came on only last Thursday. Perhaps the senator would also be able to have a close look at the impact of the amendments—specifically, what savings can you indicate and in what area are they? In other words, the minister has quite rightly identified some demographics within those exemptions, and I wonder if the minister would be able to provide, by the time we get back to this matter, the amount of savings that have been allocated to each of those demographics.