Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Obviously the senator has a great deal of detail regarding this matter, but I understood the first question went to his concerns about the contract and the tender process and to whom it was awarded. But the supplementary seems to go to the fact that he is concerned that the government made some inquiries into that process and took the sorts of concerns he had expressed seriously. So I gather that now he is concerned that we actually inquired into the contract. I do not know whether he is questioning whether Deloittes should have been employed, whether he is just questioning the result of the audit or whether it is purely the costs. Clearly the senator is concerned about the original contract and now he is concerned about the inquiry. No doubt his second supplementary will reflect concern about some other matters. As I say—