Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

There's absolutely no debate on that point, which is why, from 1 July, the reforms that we'll be introducing will improve participant choice and control through the DES, engendering competition and contestability in service delivery, improving incentives for providers to place jobseekers in employment, and introducing indexation to provider payments and a trial of expanded DES eligibility for students in the last year of school. Obviously, we do have arrangements in place for the disability support pension, as that is there as a provision for people who do not find themselves in a situation where they can obtain work. But we have the disability support pension, the DES program and the National Disability Insurance Scheme. We always want to work to improve and refine these arrangements so that we can see more Australians with disability in work.