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Around $500m spent on a regulatory reform program that commenced in 1988 and is still not finished.
Oh, not finished? Are you suggesting that the then DAS Mr Byron, mislead the Senate???
Senate Hansard of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee hearings of 14 Feb 05
Mr Byron—I anticipate we would start sending some of them from about the middle of this year. I do not see this delaying the overall program excessively. We have an action item to develop a plan to forward to the minister about when we plan to have them to the minister, and I assume that plan would be done in the next couple of months. I would be hopeful that it would not be long after early 2006 that most of the draft rules are delivered to the minister.