Patrick Gorman ‘welcomes’ federal MP’s expenses being released to public

Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister Patrick Gorman says he does “welcome” federal MP’s’ expenses being released to the public. Mr Gorman sat with Sky News Australia to discuss the release of public expenditure by federal MPs as well as the ongoing flood crisis in Far North Queensland. “It’s entirely appropriate that members of parliament, myself, all 227 members of parliament are accountable for using public money,” he said. “What we know is this is the first release of information we’ve had in more than a year and a half. “Because – what was called the new parliamentary expense management system, was a piece of software developed by the Coalition, the biggest problem with that software is they spent $69 million and it still couldn’t give us a proper report on what money was being spent.”