Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Acting Prime Minister to the fact that the Department of Immigration and Citizenship's $1 billion for asylum seekers this financial year is based on just 750 boat-people arrivals. Is he aware that, in just the last four months, there have been over 1,300 arrivals? Can he advise what the estimated blow-out in the federal budget will be in asylum seeker management this year alone?

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