Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services, Housing, Youth and Women) Share this | Hansard source

It is a bit of a problem if they cannot bid for other business at the same time, though. Would you be able to check that and get back to us? Can you tell us what proportion of the Department of Human Services budget for the next four years is for the Office of Access Card and whether this delay—the release of the exposure draft rather than actual legislation being introduced—is actually going to see that share of the Department of Human Services budget reduced—the share that is taken up by the Office of Access Card? Is that money just going to be saved for later use or is it being redirected within the Department of Human Services budget to other causes or other measures?

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