Mr ABBOTT (Warringah—Prime Minister) (15:07): Australia simply could not go on as we were, under the former government, borrowing more and more every year, loading up our children and our grandchildren with an ever-increasing debt. Right now, because of the policies of the former government, every Australian is paying a billion dollars every single month. Ms Kate Ellis interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Adelaide will desist. Mr ABBOTT: We are contributing our share to the billion dollars that the Commonwealth is paying every single month— Ms Macklin interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Jagajaga will desist. Mr ABBOTT: just to pay the interest on Labor's borrowings and, under the policies of members opposite, within a decade it would have been $3 billion a month. We simply could not go on like this. Every year of deficit takes us deeper into debt, and every year the debt goes up the interest bill just increases. It just goes up and up and up and up. Mr Swan: Another lie! The SPEAKER: Was that the member for Lilley? Honourable members: Yes! The SPEAKER: The member for Lilley will withdraw his comment and leave, under standing order 94(a). Mr Swan: I withdraw, but he's still a liar. The SPEAKER: I name the honourable member for Lilley. Mr Pyne: I move: That the member for Lilley be excused from the service of the House. The SPEAKER: The question is that the member for Lilley be excused from the service of the House. A division having been called and the bells being rung— The SPEAKER: I have consulted with the Clerk, who advises me that the scenario I put to you earlier—that he had been removed under 94(a) but has subsequently been named—means that it would be in accordance with tradition for him to resume his place in the chamber to vote. Therefore, I invite him to come back and take his seat. The question is that the member for Lilley be excused from the service of the House.