Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. Indeed, I was getting to that part of my answer before I was interrupted by those on the other side. As the senator mentioned, the 10-year funding outlook from the Labor government was absolutely made-up money. It never existed; it was never there. They are talking about cuts from money that they were never going to deliver, and they were never going to deliver it because they left us a trajectory of $667 billion worth of debt. That is money we were never going to get to. That is why we focus on making sure that we address the positives. In the forward estimates from this government, overall, the total budget for health funding is going to increase—$7.6 billion.