Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

Because I was explaining to Senator Chandler why yet again we have had to step in as a government and clean up the legacy that those opposite left. You ripped $1.2 billion of employer incentives out of the system. Do you know what actually happened? Do you know what happened? As Senator Payne clearly stated, the greatest fall in apprenticeship numbers on record occurred in 2012-13 when the number of apprenticeship commencements fell by 85,000 in one single year. Senator Polley, perhaps your question is better directed to Senator Wong because Senator Wong was actually sitting around the cabinet table at the time, making decisions to rip out of the system $1.2 billion in employer incentives. We are committed to this system and we will do everything that—