Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

As the Prime Minister has already said, of the 27,000 Australians with a disability in residential settings, which are shared disability accommodation and residential aged care, there have been more than 10,000 doses and more than 7,000 people have been vaccinated—that is, around 25 per cent of people in residential care have been vaccinated as at 29 May this year. This week alone the Commonwealth in-reach vaccination service will visit 83 disability residential accommodation sites in Victoria to vaccinate vulnerable Australians. The first of the specialist disability vaccination hubs in Thomastown was established last week and it's vaccinating more than 120 people a day as part of that. As part of the broader NDIS population aged 16 and over, 35,000 participants have been vaccinated as at 29 May this year.

At the commencement of the pandemic, the Morrison government acted swiftly to ensure the safety of participants and the viability of the sector, and we'll continue to do that. The numbers speak for themselves: 183 Australians with disability have contracted COVID-19, a third of the percentage of the general population, even though, as a proportion, their disability and the issues in their life are so much greater. This shows what the strength of the government's response to the sector has been, and we'll continue to prioritise this is as we move forward.

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