Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

To take that one step further, you've said that ParentsNext is not within the scope of this bill, but, clearly, this bill has an impact on the very same people. We're talking about people with children; the purpose of ParentsNext was to keep those people connected to the workforce. My question was about whether the government has given any consideration specifically to the impact of lifting the age of eligible children to 14 under the single parenting payment when, at the same time—albeit by different mechanism—you are removing this program for people with caring responsibilities to maintain some level of connection with the workforce. Are you saying that nothing has happened, or is there some other piece of information or policy development that we can look to somewhere else? I'm not asking for it to be in this bill, but could you point to where else you're looking to maintain this connection to the workforce?