Judith Collins MP National Party Welfare Spokeswoman
25 November 2005
Debt write-off an exercise in
deception
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith
Collins says the Government plan to write-off half a billion
dollars in unpaid child support is “an exercise in
deception”.
National is opposing Labour’s plan to write
off hundreds of millions of dollars worth of accumulated
child support debt as proposed in the Child Support
Amendment Bill, which was introduced to Parliament this
week.
“Penalties don’t start accumulating straight away
and these liable parents obviously knew they had
responsibilities to their children from the start, but they
failed to honour those obligations.
“The new Revenue
Minister must be dreaming if he thinks more than a small
fraction of liable parents will miraculously come to their
senses and start paying their way.
“This is merely an
attempt to disguise Labour’s soft approach to ballooning
child support debt and make the grim figures look
better.
“Labour’s plan will see hundreds of millions of
taxpayer dollars transferred straight into the pockets of
child support defaulters.
“Surely the Government would
be better off making more of an effort to collect the
outstanding debt and channel the money in the direction of
vulnerable children.
“Labour is doing single parents and
their children a grave disservice by failing to enforce the
law,” says Ms Collins.
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