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

As I was indicating before—and now I have both electronic and paper material in front of me—recommendation 3 is essentially about providing a fairer and more consistent participant pathway. This bill amends the act in relation to access to establish a fairer and more consistent participant pathway; that is recommendation 3. We may need to provide more information in relation to which sections of the bill, but if you're looking for a cross-tabulation table of the bill with each recommendation, I'm not in a position to provide that to you. I can say that, in relation to recommendation 3, which is about participant pathways and providing a fairer and more consistent approach, the bill is designed to amend the act in relation to access to provide participants with a clear statement on the basis upon which they entered the scheme. As I indicated before—I won't go through it all again—in developing the access provisions, including the methods or criteria to be applied, when making decisions about the disability and early intervention criteria and the matters which must or must not be taken into account, that process in relation—

The TEMPORARY CHAIR: A point of order, Senator Reynolds?