Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I assume that was a directly relevant answer. I ask a further supplementary question. Is the appointment of Mr John Fahey, a former Liberal finance minister, to oversee the reconstruction spending an admission by the government of its own inability to properly administer taxpayer funds? Why could the government not trust its own finance minister to do the job?