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

That is not what I am saying at all. I am saying that I do not believe that your priorities are right when you turn around and say that you are going to have a Paid Parental Leave scheme worth billions of dollars. I know that in the party room you express private concerns about the Paid Parental Leave scheme. I know that when you are not before the cameras you have spoken words other than those that you are prepared to say when you get up and speak today. But I question your priorities, and it really comes down to a matter of priorities. We are not saying there is a bottomless pit of money here. We are saying, 'Ask yourself what your priorities are going to be.' The problem with the social security bills that we are debating now is that the priorities within them are wrong.

Senator O'Sullivan interjecting —