Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I missed the first half of that question, but I answered it in the second question: Minister Jones is an outstanding minister and a fine colleague, who works day and night in his portfolio. There are a lot of stakeholders and a lot of different views in this sector. I've had that shadow portfolio and it is not an easy portfolio to manage. There are stakeholders and different points of view, it has a heavy legislative focus and it involves lots of engagements across the financial services sector, from the big banks to the consumer representatives and everything in between. He is doing an outstanding job in delivering on the government's agenda and the reforms that we want to see done.

In the case of the legislation that Senator Smith's original question related to, before he veered off track: there is more work to be done to reach agreement about how to progress that through the Senate, including talking with stakeholders. That was the decision that the government took this week. (Time expired)