Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank Mr. Blaikie for his intervention. His arguments around accountability I think are very strong.
I just want to raise the point that we have been seeing bill after bill now in this Parliament where the government is bypassing the usual estimates process and instead is using legislation to make these payments. I don't think that's necessarily a good process. If the government is going to move outside of the typical supply process, where they are putting it in the main estimates or putting it into the supplementaries, we should be asking for more accountability from the government.
It does seem to me that either they didn't anticipate this spending—and that starts to raise questions about whether or not they have a firm plan in place as to where this will go—or they are doing this for political reasons.
I think Mr. Blaikie has raised a number of arguments, and I'm willing to support him on this.