Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That there be laid on the table, by the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Energy, by no later than 9.30 am on 1 December 2016, the cost-benefit analysis undertaken by Marsden Jacob Associates of Australia ratifying Minamata Convention on Mercury commissioned by the Department of the Environment and Energy.

James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Stephen Parry (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Is leave granted? Leave is granted for one minute.

James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The government intends to release the cost-benefit analysis with a regulatory impact statement during December 2016. It is appropriate that documents are released as part of a package of relevant information and not as independent documents.

Question agreed to.