Ms Oonagh Buckley:

As this is one of the most litigious spaces we are in, if we lost a file we would expect a judicial review instantaneously. I am glad to say that even though it is paper based, we do track them and try to manage that system. The asylum list is one of the busiest in the High Court in an average year.

On ICT investment, the Department has been resourced in its estimate for this year and next to the tune of several millions, which is excellent. Because of the size of the demands by immigration services, it is likely that a large part of that will be spent on that area and into the International Protection Office. I cannot give a figure at the moment. A business case for bringing in those services will be considered shortly by the committee that does that.

It might be slightly unusual but we were part of the whole-of-government effort to introduce the mandatory hotel quarantine system. In the space of about ten days, we introduced an appeals system that was entirely electronically based. We will take some of the things that we learned from that for the work on the IPO and the International Protection Appeals Tribunal, IPAT.