Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

The honourable senator asks about a very important piece of legislation which, hopefully, will come back before the Senate later this week and that is a pack of legislation which will, once and for all, remove the toxic carbon tax from Australia's economy.

In relation to a regulatory impact statement to the specific amendments, I would anticipate that no such regulatory impact statement has been undertaken. But in relation to the other part of the honourable senator's question as to, I think, how many entities might be impacted, from recollection—and if I need to correct this after question time, I will—about 60 entities will be impacted.

But let us make no mistake that the amendments to which the honourable senator refers relate to a package of bills on which 66 of the 76 senators in this place were elected on, namely, the repeal of the carbon tax. I think one of those 66 had a nuanced position about the repeal and Direct Action. So even if we were to have—