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

I've made that point many, many, many, many times. Organising this sort of program and these sorts of payments for six million Australians is a huge logistical exercise. To get this set up does take time, in terms of making sure the system is able to do so accurately, efficiently and effectively. It's entirely driven by the time required to get all of the systems in place to do this at this sort of scale.