Mathias Cormann WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer
2:27 pm
Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given the minister has just conceded that the government will incur significant additional costs as a result of yet another blow-out in illegal boat arrivals, can the minister confirm by how much its expenditure estimates for illegal arrivals by boat will blow out—given that she relied on a prediction that illegal arrivals by boat would reduce from about 3,000 a month right now to about 1,000 a month in less than two weeks from now?
Senator Jacinta Collins interjecting—
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