Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

It will, in the government's view, take 12 to 18 months to introduce the new framework. We anticipate that it will take a five-year period to transition new and existing participants in the scheme over to the new framework. It will need to be determined, during the design of the needs assessment tool and the needs assessment process, what is the likely volume of new applicants and whether all new applicants will go through the process as you've outlined in your question or whether there will be some other streaming process to do that in a way that the capability the department and the agency possess can manage effectively.