Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

What ASIO have done is divert significant resources to undertake security assessments within the way that they will manage their portfolio and their responsibilities. National security remains, and continues to remain, an important element of ASIO’s work, as are the security assessments that they do with DIAC, prioritising that work to ensure that they can process those on time. When ASIO does work through and conduct those security assessments, it does so with DIAC to ensure that they can process it in accordance with the work that is being set by ASIO and DIAC to ensure that the work continues.