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

I just want to make sure that what I'm saying is precise. Some participants are able to use their NDIS funding. This will require a further budget decision of government. That will be taken at the appropriate time and is not able to be undertaken until all of the work in the co-design process that we've spent some time discussing is finalised. A government decision to fund a particular activity prior to the activity being scoped out properly is not a sensible thing to ask government to do at this stage. But the NDIS Review panel was quite explicit in its own recommendation in relation to these issues, and obviously the government will have regard to that and to the work of the needs assessment tool development process.