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

I thank Senator Paterson for the question. I was advising the Senate that there have been times—despite what those opposite claim repeatedly in interviews and in here about the level of spending currently and its relation to other periods—where it's exceeded that. I was drawing the Senate's attention to that. If I've made an error, I'm happy to change that. I will get the figures that I was relying on.