Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

to a 75-place childcare centre. Our response: working with state and territory ministers to get rid of that over-regulation. Labor's other failure in the rural and regional sector: to abolish child care in occasional care services. Our response: to bring it back, which we have done. Labor's failure was, again, to preside over a 30 per cent reduction in compliance checks, leading to an explosion in cheating and rorting. We have established a dedicated compliance task force, which has already taken action and recovered taxpayers' money. Labor's failure: failure to allocate a single cent to universal access to preschool beyond the end of 2014. Ours: to restore it for 2015.

The member for Wright, like other members of the Liberal and Nationals parties, brings to this parliament the lived experiences of families who are struggling, managing the childcare juggle—homework, commute, before-school care, after-school care, the work-family balance on which so much depends. We have a plan. We are building a better system, we are working to fix Labor's mess.

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