QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Mr JOYCE (New England) (14:27): My question is to the Leader of the House, representing the Minister for Environment and Water. I heard you today talking about your support for workers, so I put the challenge to you: we have 79 workers at Deniliquin and Leeton who've received their redundancy notice because of the peculiarity that you are unable to credit floodwaters as environmental flow.

This is merely a bureaucratic decision. Do you promise those workers, members of the United Workers Union, that you will change this decision and give them back their jobs before they get flushed down the river?