Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

The government has a lawful requirement, as we all know, to ensure the appropriate collection of debts. That's something the member for Maribyrnong made clear on 9 May last year when he said that, where people are receiving welfare that they are not entitled to, no-one gets a leave pass on it. The member for Sydney in 2010 said, 'If people fail to come to an arrangement to settle their debts, the government has a responsibility to taxpayers to recover that money.' Labor's own words make it very clear that the responsibility to recover debts has always been—

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