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

There Senator Reynolds goes again, defending her period in government. That is not germane to the questions that are in front of this chamber that are engaged by this bill. This bill is a response in part to recommendations from the review panel report. It does the work that it says it is going to do and no more. There is more work, of course, to come. In relation to the requirement to pay for needs assessments, as I said, as part of the co-design process, further work will need to be undertaken around the design of that assessment process, and a decision will need to be made in a future budget context around payment.