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

I do withdraw. It is not true that the Labor government, when in government, fully funded the NDIS. It is not true that they delivered four surpluses in one night. It is simply not true. And when pushed for explanation, how utterly extraordinary that the best that they could come up is that they had stopped caring or bothering about explaining Labor's funding of the scheme. And why would you keep peddling that utter myth? You would have to try and stop bothering or caring when the nonsense is as large and the myth is as large as the one that they have propagated. What we announced today is that we will find savings measures to fully fund the NDIS. We are the government who will give line of sight. Had you been serious about fully funding the NDIS, you would have done exactly the same thing that we are doing—that is, to create an account into which the savings will go where they will be protected and allocated only for the purposes of funding the NDIS.

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