Mr. John McKeon:

It is important to recognise that the Department has two schemes in place which facilitate those who are working part time. There are the casual jobseeker's allowance and the part-time job incentive, both of which are available to persons who are working part-time. We very much see working part time as a step towards working full time.

On extension to other cohorts, if I gave the impression in the way I represented the approach during a recession as opposed to that in a recovery, that somehow we ignored people with disabilities or other cohorts, we do not. In fact, people with disabilities have access to a very wide range of employment supports and services which are more generous than jobseeker's payments.