Arthur Sinodinos (NSW, Liberal Party, Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

No, I cannot confirm that because I think deregulation, intelligently applied, can promote job growth and productivity. The new Assistant Minister for Productivity, Dr Hendy, has been given the explicit task of upgrading our efforts on deregulation to link them to measures which explicitly promote productivity. In other words, deregulation is not just about compliance and ticking boxes in regulatory impact statements or removing pages of legislation; it is also about actions which make it easier in order to promote productivity.