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

Senator Pocock would know that we've taken decisions about exempting the national institutions from the additional efficiency dividend that was imposed. We have been very sensitive to the collecting institutions and their relatively modest budgets. We've also invested huge amounts into the national institutions, including the National Gallery. I've been working with the National Gallery for over a year on dealing with their issues of their roof, as have other ministers in this place. I think you've seen our record, which is of actually ensuring that we are protecting the budgets of the national institutions here, investing in them to make sure they continue to do what they do and, in relation to the National Gallery, working with the gallery about the best way and timing to make the investments needed to ensure that that building is safe for the art that it holds, and we'll continue to do so.