Senate debates

Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Bills

Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (2014 Budget Measures No. 1) Bill 2014, Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (2014 Budget Measures No. 2) Bill 2014; Second Reading

12:07 pm

Photo of Sam DastyariSam Dastyari (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is not as if there are an amazing number of jobs out there at the moment that young people are choosing not to take. If you look at any statistic or any report, it is not there. Senator O'Sullivan has been interjecting and asking me, 'How do you pay for it?' This is the point that I am making, Senator O'Sullivan: we have to ask ourselves as a society what our priorities are. It is a question of priorities. I do not believe that the priorities are right when you say that you are going to have a Paid Parental Leave scheme worth billions of dollars—

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