Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. As I was saying, all of the projects that are being administered under this program were election promises. As I indicated to the chamber yesterday, because the delivery of these projects is very similar to the way that CDG projects are rolled out—

Senator Farrell interjecting—

the department have decided—it expressed no concerns to me, Senator Farrell—to use the guidelines for the delivery of CDG projects for the delivery of this program. There was no concern from my department to me around how this program might be delivered. The government made a decision that the Department of Health would deliver this program rather than the department of infrastructure, and the Department of Health is utilising— (Time expired)