House debates

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Questions without Notice

Asylum Seekers

2:28 pm

Photo of Julia GillardJulia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I repeat for the member for Mackellar that I do not have committed to memory every page of the budget and every word on every page of the budget. Obviously, the budget deals with appropriations for the department of immigration, and those appropriations are used for detention purposes, including being used for the announcements that have been made most recently. In the announcement made on Monday, there was a net additional spend of $54 million.

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