House debates
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Bills
Dental Benefits Amendment Bill 2012; Second Reading
1:43 pm
Dennis Jensen (Tangney, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source
There will be nothing until April 2014. You can wait, folks. That is okay; that is the Labor way: 'We make promises we cannot deliver on and we have borrowed so much money that we cannot really borrow any more. What sort of promises do we make? We are now promising to spend the states' money. We are not even spending money that the federal government is borrowing anymore'. They are making promises that they cannot deliver and so they are relying on the states to fund those promises. What a disgrace.
I notice the Treasurer is here. This is supposed to be responsible budgeting. It is a joke and it is getting worse. I almost do not know where to go—
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