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

Then, on top of that, they are going to the taxpayer. They are actually earning 50 per cent more than those who are just getting the 18-weeks payment. What we are saying is very clear: if you are getting a paid parental leave payment over the course of when you have been in work and you have gone to have a child, then you will get that 18 weeks, which is just over about $11,500. But if you are drawing down $20,000 from a public sector employer—and that is 60 per cent of these cases—then you do not get to go back to the well and say, 'Can I have another $11,000, please, from the taxpayer?' If those opposite think that it is a fair thing that you can put one hand in the taxpayers' pocket for 20 grand and then put another hand in the taxpayers' pocket for 11 grand then you would not know fairness if it fell over you.

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