Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Ageing, Disabilities and Carers) Share this | Hansard source

Just for clarification, Parliamentary Secretary: are you saying that the minister would conduct the inquiry? Is there a point of negotiation somewhere between your position and ours? The important point that we are trying to make is that it needs to be an independent body of review. To maintain the faith and trust that we, as a community, have in our PBS, we would need some sort of independence to that review process. To ask the minister to conduct the inquiry does not give the level of transparency that our community would expect of us so I request that there might be an opportunity to find something a little bit closer to an independent body of review—rather than the minister undertaking the review.