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

Some of the services, of course, that people access in the health system are expensive. As to psychologists—for ordinary people, when they look at the numbers that you just described, they are very expensive; that is true.

The NDIS review made recommendations about pricing, of course, which the government is examining and will examine in the context of future rounds of legislative reform. I want to take a careful and balanced approach to this, because, as you say, there is a relationship between the labour markets here for different services, and there is a relationship between these pricing issues and making sure that—as I think everyone would want—where a service is provided by a disability worker, that is reflected in the wages that the disability worker gets themselves as well.

These pricing issues are absolutely on the radar of the minister. They were dealt with in the context of the review. Like many of the problems in terms of the scheme, not everything is solved by this piece of legislation. But they are definitely in scope for future rounds of legislative reform.