Andrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Chairman of the Coalition Policy Development Committee) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. I remind the Treasurer that the government's budget for asylum seekers who arrive illegally by boat next year is a record $2.9 billion based on 1,000 arrivals per month. Given that illegal boat arrivals are now occurring at a rate of more than 3,000 per month, will the Treasurer admit that these estimates are incorrect and undertake to revise the estimates and report to the House before the parliament rises on the true cost to the budget next year of illegal boat arrivals?

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