Damian Drum (Murray, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to talk about the importance of the NDIS in my electorate of Murray, where more than 3,800 people will have access to the NDIS. Disability support providers such as ConnectGV in Shepparton are eager to use this service when it comes on stream in 2019. Just this morning I was talking to Caroline Young, who is CEO of ConnectGV. She has a long list of disability support advocates who are calling for the NDIS to be fully funded.

We know that those opposite have no plan and never have had a plan to fully fund the NDIS since its inception. Former Treasurer Wayne Swan admitted it himself in his book, where he said in chapter 20: 'More savings were required to fund the NDIS, but by May we effectively had to rule out every other option. An addition to the Medicare levy was the only—

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