Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Seeing how the minister wants to be asked a question on net debt, we will do so. I refer to chart 2 on page 3.22 of last year's budget, which showed that the government was predicting that it could repay our net debt by 2021. Given that the government has foreshadowed it will produce 10-year forecasts in the budget, will the budget forecast when net debt will be repaid and will the government promise it will still be repaid by 2021? There is a question on net debt. See if you can answer that one.