A senior public servant has played down the role of the tax office in providing personal information used for the robodebt scheme, despite raising serious issues with it himself, in 2017.
Director of data management at the ATO, Tyson Fawcett appeared as a witness at a royal commission into the now defunct scheme in Brisbane on Monday.
Mr Fawcett agreed with a description of the ATO's role in the data sharing as "passive" and said until issues were aired in the media he was essentially unaware of how the data was being used.
