Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Ketter for his supplementary question. A number of issues have been raised with me—and I am sure with the Assistant Minister for Health, Senator Nash, who of course has the Office of Hearing Services in her portfolio responsibilities—by various stakeholders in the portfolio area. As the scoping study itself continues, I am sure that those stakeholders will make those concerns known to the advisers in this area, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Herbert Smith Freehills, and they will also continue to make them known to both myself and the assistant minister in the appropriate ways. I was able to hear from a number of organisations at the breakfast which was held in this building on Tuesday morning and they reflected some of those issues also raised by Senator Ketter. We will continue to receive those views from the stakeholders as the scoping study progresses.