Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Respectfully, to the minister, through you, Mr Temporary Chairman: that was not the question. The question was: does the government acknowledge that the coalition's policy statement at their campaign launch in August last year to fully restore the private health insurance rebate within a decade is now going to be more difficult to achieve or that it is now further from achieving it as a result of the measures contained in this bill? It is a fairly straightforward proposition.