Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

What I would say to Senator Wong is that what she's just read out is 100 per cent consistent with my previous answer. I'm not aware of the specific circumstance at hand because I didn't have visibility of the specific decision-making. But what I would say to you is that, at any one point in time, there are a number of grants programs that are operating across government, and from time to time there is the opportunity for overlap. What I would also point out from an Auditor-General's report, which I will just talk about, is this: 'In one instance, ministers explicitly decided to waive the project eligibility criteria for an application they wished—'