Senate debates Bills
Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Bill 2020, Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Bill 2020, Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2019-2020, Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2019-2020; In Committee
Mathias Cormann WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council
8:49 pm
I would very respectfully refer the senator to my statement in my second reading summing-up speech, where I addressed that precise question directly. The Treasurer is given the power under this legislation to exercise discretion, as you have rightly pointed out, and he will have the capacity to issue rules and determinations to give effect to that. I spelt all of that out in some detail in the second reading summing-up speech.
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