Gerard Rennick (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I continue my remarks about the importance of making sure that the NDIS remains a sustainable and efficient manner of delivering adequate support to the people who need it. That's very, very important because, as I touched upon when I first started this speech two nights ago, unfortunately private equity has moved into this industry and there is very little as a public backstop to ensure that there is ethical competition in the industry. One of the things that I've learnt in my time as a senator—in my life, actually; not just in my time as a senator—is that things work best when we have a public-private structure whereby we have the private practice or industry out there always seeking better efficiency gains, cutting-edge technology et cetera, but we actually—