Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

The coalition government takes the abuse and neglect of people with disability very seriously, and is engaging in real, immediate and substantial reform to improve the treatment of people with disability, including those in residential settings, most of whom will be eligible for the National Disability Insurance Scheme. There have already been multiple inquiries looking into issues of abuse and neglect of people with disability at both the federal and the state levels which have clearly identified the issues. As responsibility for specialist disability services shifts from the states and territories to a national system through the NDIS, the Commonwealth government has established new significant and comprehensive safeguards to prevent abuse and neglect of people with a disability under the NDIS. The Commonwealth has established the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and continues to provide the National Disability—