Bills to release $2.2b pass lower house

After days of wide-ranging debate from all sides of politics, legislation to release an extra $2.2 billion for government spending have passed the lower house.

Two appropriation bills, which allocate spending in addition to the May budget, list spending ranging from half a billion dollars to a few thousand dollars across government.

The bills give the immigration department $447 million to deal with onshore detention, refugee resettlement and asylum-seeker processing and will head to the Senate, where passage is expected.