Mr GARETH EVANS —My question is addressed to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to reports today that the government is under pressure from various sources, including the business community, to ditch the centrepiece of his last budget, the savings rebate. Will you continue to deliver the savings rebate as announced, or has this become yet another non-core promise?

Mr COSTELLO —Well may I ask: was that another no-brainer question? Of course, we will. I read that article with some interest, because I do not think anybody was actually quoted. I thought to myself, `Isn't that interesting. Nobody talks to me about it. Nobody goes into a quote.' It is a non-story. And I thought, `Seeing as it is a non-story, there is no hope that anybody would ever ask a question about it in the parliament.' But I did not count on you, old son. Where would we be without you?