Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Indeed I can. I think nothing could be more emblematic of this government's conviction that good economic policy and good budget policy support good social policy than our delivery in the budget of full funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme. In fact, we went further. The previous government wanted to apply an efficiency dividend to the package costs in the NDIS. We did not think it was reasonable to apply an efficiency dividend to package costs in the NDIS, so we have returned that $45 million back into the NDIS. Through the NDIS example, we can demonstrate already the dividends of good economic policy, of good budget policy—that we are in a position to help fund the NDIS in full, with the support of our state colleagues—because, obviously, it is a national venture with all Australian governments.