Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Only the Australian Greens could come in here and call a compliance measure in MYEFO to stop people ripping off and rorting childcare subsidies a cut. What was announced in MYEFO was that we're going to make sure that dodgy operators who are ripping off taxpayers at present and claiming funds for the care of children who often don't exist or aren't in child care are no longer entitled to do so. As a government we're very proud of the fact we have made sure that we drive every dollar as far as we can. And it's reforms like this that enable us to give more support to the families who need it most—to make sure that those low-income, hardworking families get greater support for the choices they make to work, study and volunteer. We anticipate that, by better gearing and targeting the childcare subsidy, more families will choose to work more hours and more days because they're going to get more support to do so from the Turnbull government.