Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Herbert for his question. As he is aware, yesterday the Prime Minister and the Queensland Premier signed the agreement which will be the transitional bilateral for Queensland. Ninety-one thousand participants in Queensland now have complete certainty about the rollout of the NDIS in Queensland. What that means is that NDIS bilaterals have been signed with South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT. This means that 85 per cent of the 460,000 Australians with a disability who are expected to be eligible have complete certainty as we move forward to the full rollout of the NDIS in 2019.

At full-scheme rollout, the bill for the NDIS will be $22 billion a year. Yesterday in this place the government introduced the National Disability Insurance Scheme Savings Fund Special Account Bill, which will create a special account to make up for the fact that, most unfortunately, the member for Lilley did not leave enough secure and identifiable money for the scheme. Now, you may know the answer, Mr Speaker—

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