Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness) Share this | Hansard source

In terms of all policies there needs to be a targeting to need and also a targeting in relation to the resources we have at our disposal. The government has done indicative costings of the Greens' amendments, and it would cost double to implement them. What the government is attempting to do here is to target the policy to areas of greatest need, with the backing of evidence through the research I have mentioned.