House debates Questions without Notice

Asylum Seekers

Tuesday, 3 June 2014 House of Representatives

Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection

2:31 pm

This year, that is how many people were going to turn up on their government's policy. I can tell you what the estimate is this year, Madam Speaker. It is 7,667, and 85 per cent of those turned up in the first 2½ months, while that mob were in government. So the savings would have been far greater if we compared it to what that mob left us, if the policies had not been not changed. On simple arithmetic, it would have been over $4 billion.

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