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

If one is seeking a cross-tabulation table, I indicated that that is not in front of me. If we're able to provide further information, I'm sure we'd be happy to. What I am doing is answering your question.

Recommendation 3 goes to pathways. I was just about to make the point that the act sets out a process for developing that criteria. Recommendation 6 goes to creating a continuum of support for children under the age of nine and their families. Recommendation 7 goes to introducing a new approach to NDIS supports for psychosocial disability, focused on personal recovery and developing mental health reforms to better support people with severe mental illness.

If there's additional information that we can provide about the relationship between those and the bill, we will, but, as I have indicated before, the bill will provide for a needs assessment process and the co-design process to finalise that in consultation with people with disability, the disability community, health and allied health technical professionals, and all states and territories, consistent with the governance arrangements. It will insert a new definition of 'NDIS support' and a series of measures focused on protecting participants. All those measures in the whole go to those recommendations that I referred to and that are useful and important parts of the government's response to the overall NDIS review.