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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for that information and will be checking that. The original Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program budget allocated $350,000 per house. The first houses funded for Groote Eylandt and the Tiwi Islands are alleged to have cost around $560,000, and the revised budget provided by the government for all future houses is $450,000. Given the budget blowouts, how can the government continue to claim all promises can be met within existing allocations?