Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister for Arts and Attorney-General) (15:00): Senator Lines, I can guarantee this to you: that the funding will be targeted where it is needed most. And if I can go to your first supplementary question for a moment, which perhaps I answered too briefly, it was always intended that the National Partnership agreement would be open for signature this month and that it would be completed before 1 July, and the Commonwealth expects that it will be. Mr President, I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper. Senator Ian Macdonald: Mr President, by way of a point of order, can I raise with you—and I did not want to do this when it would interrupt the flow of question time—standing order 73(1), which says: questions shall not refer to: (l) proceedings in committee not reported to the Senate. The question from Senator Collins to Senator Brandis clearly related to evidence given before either one of two committees which have not reported to the Senate on their proceedings. She has had no private discussions with anyone; the evidence clearly came from those committees; and the standing order says that the questions 'shall not refer to proceedings in committee not reported to the Senate'. The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator Macdonald. I understand what you are asking but, in this case, the standing orders refer distinctly to the Committee of the Whole of the Senate, not to estimates committees or standing committees.