Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Lindsay for her question and her comments. I remember the member and me being together when we announced the program for the in-home nannies pilot program, which we hope will commence in January of next year. This is an important program, because it assists those families that currently cannot access mainstream child care and the subsidies that are provided as part of that program. They are shiftworkers, nurses and police officers. They are those who are working in some of the most key occupations in our community and our society. This is one of the key areas that were identified in the course of the Productivity Commission inquiry, and we decided that we were going to focus our program on trying to address the needs of those who the system currently was not addressing—

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