Senator LUNDY (Australian Capital Territory—Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation, Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Minister for Sport) (14:23): The minister has made arrangements for an interim joint advisory committee to play an initial oversight role for the Nauru centre as well as provide advice to both governments on the make-up of an independent and permanent oversight committee. This will be chaired by the Deputy Secretary, Dr Wendy Southern, and Nauru MP Mathew Batsua. The interim joint advisory committee includes member Paris Aristotle and the Minister's Council on Asylum Seekers in Detention members Professor Nicholas Procter, Associate Professor Mary Anne Kenny and Maryanne Loughry. Meanwhile, Mr Bowen said that preliminary entities for the processing of people in the Nauru centre will be continuing— Senator Brandis: Mr President, I raise a point of order on relevance. I know the minister has got more than a minute to go, but what she has said so far in her answer has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the question I asked her. Senator Jacinta Collins: On the point of order, Mr President, I am not sure that Senator Brandis was following the answer properly. I know he asked the question but the answer was dealing with the broader framework for dealing with issues of the nature that he has raised. The minister has described the framework for the oversight committee and just as Senator Brandis got up to make his point of order I did hear her say, 'Meanwhile, preliminary arrangements …' and she was about to enter the detail of the question and the single case he was raising. The PRESIDENT: There is one minute 18 remaining and I do draw the minister's attention to the question. Senator LUNDY: Thank you, Mr President. As I was going to say, meanwhile the minister will begin preliminary interviews for processing people at the Nauru centre shortly. These issues all relate to the operation of the Nauru centre. Can I say to Senator Brandis that in relation to the explicit matter he has asked about I would need to get additional information because I do not have any specific brief on the matter. I am very happy to do that and in the meantime, as you can hear, our work is progressing very well on Nauru. We will, of course, continue to make transfers to Nauru and to Manus Island starting today. In this way we persist with our commitment to honouring the independent advice of the expert panel and implementing the 22 recommendations. What is unfortunate is that the opposition fail to grasp the seriousness of this issue and continue to play politics with it, to their discredit. This is a challenging issue. We are committed to smashing the people smugglers' model and it is a great shame that the opposition do not share our concern and our commitment to this serious task.