Spending on Parliament House security shows "incompetent budgeting"

By Ross Peake
Updated May 26 2015 - 12:18am, first published May 25 2015 - 11:30pm
Katy Gallagher is sworn in as a new senator for the ACT in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday. Photo: Andrew Meares
Katy Gallagher is sworn in as a new senator for the ACT in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday. Photo: Andrew Meares

The failure to spend money allocated for the security upgrade at Parliament House was incompetent budgeting, a Senate estimates hearing was told on Monday.