Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

I asked the assistant minister whether he thinks that the government's very ambitious—some would say highly fanciful—housing target can be met given the existing construction workforce in this country at the moment. Is it possible for the government to achieve its target for housing in this country over the next five years? The shortfall is seen by most people as between 400,000 to 500,000, so is the existing workforce going to be able to meet the government's target? Everyone in the industry says that it won't be able to. So how are you going to complement the domestic workforce to cover that 400,000 to 500,000 likely shortfall in your housing target?

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