The government will go ahead with its planned paid parental leave scheme, Treasurer Joe Hockey says. Source: AAP
THE federal government will push ahead with its planned paid parental leave scheme even if a commission of audit deems it too generous in the current budgetary environment.
Treasurer Joe Hockey said the coalition will keep its promise to deliver the scheme, which is planned to begin in July 2015 and cost about $5.5 billion a year.
"The paid parental leave scheme will be fully funded and it is fully funded," Mr Hockey told the ABC on Wednesday.
He did not reject an assertion that an interim report from the commission found the scheme too generous in light of the budget's unhealthy position.
He also flagged that the government could overlook other commission of audit recommendations in its May budget.
"We won't accept every recommendation of the report," he said.
"It is a report to the government ... all the commission of audit reports that have been around previously, I don't think any government has accepted all the recommendations."
In his signature paid parental leave policy, Prime Minister Tony Abbott wants to give working women their regular wage for six months, capped at $75,000, after they give birth.
Labor is opposed to the scheme and in late February Nationals senator John Williams said he will only back the plan if there is a significant economic turnaround.
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