Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Senator McLucas, I will not be verballed here through those quotes. I will not be verballed. Absolutely we had concerns about the Renewable Energy Target as a government, and we made changes to the Renewable Energy Target last year. But I have never suggested that the Renewable Energy Target should be scrapped, as you suggest in that question. That is completely incorrect, and that is not how you should have presented that question here. Yes, the government recognised that there were issues with the Renewable Energy Target, and, yes, we made changes to that particular target, because we were never going to get to the ridiculous target put in place by the other side that they had no options for getting towards—