Senator McKENZIE (Victoria—Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience, Minister for Regionalisation, Regional Communications and Regional Education and Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) (14:35): As part of the new arrangements, commercial vessels continue to arrive in Australia. When COVID-19 is confirmed or suspected in the crew, state health authorities have been effectively managing the risk in consultation with the Commonwealth— The PRESIDENT: Senator Keneally, on a point of order? Senator Keneally: On relevance. I realise the minister has been speaking for only 15 seconds but her answer seems to be in no way relevant to the question. The question was: why weren't federal agriculture officials allowed to appear before the New South Wales special commission of inquiry? This answer seems to be completely irrelevant. The PRESIDENT: As I said before, there was a quotation and a preamble to it. A minister is entitled to address that part of the question, not just the part at the end. Short, specific questions give much less discretion to those answering them. The minister is entitled to address the quotation that was made before the part of the question that you mentioned. Senator McKENZIE: Legislation with changes that were recommended by both the New South Wales commission and the inspector-general's review will be introduced to parliament. Since the Ruby Princess incident, the government invested a further $400 million in biosecurity in the 2021-22 budget on top of record spending in 2020-21. This will see a funding boost for, among other matters, staff at the front line and helping to modernise some of those border systems. The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment continues to work with states, territories and port stakeholders to further adjust systems and processes to better manage human health and biosecurity. They've established formal protocols— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Brown, a final supplementary question?