Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Designed, introduced and defended by the now Prime Minister, the then health minister, the scheme that was supposed to cost $90 million a year ended up costing $80 million a month. And it did not matter if you were a millionaire; you could have access to that scheme. It did not matter if the work was cosmetic; you could have access to that scheme. Billions of dollars spent on a scheme that was so poorly designed and so—

Mr Ewen Jones interjecting—

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