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

That is correct. That language, 'arising from', is a consequence of the government listening to some of the consultation in relation to these questions. It is a broad legal construct that enables a whole-of-person assessment but stays true to the NDIS review recommendation 3.4, which said:

The National Disability Insurance Agency should introduce new needs assessment processes to more consistently determine the level of need for each participant and set budgets on this basis.

It was always the intention for the needs assessment to examine all of a participant's needs arising as a result of their disability. Further amendments, the ones that you've taken me to, clarify that that is the purpose of the holistic assessment of need resulting from impairments which meet the disability or early intervention requirements. But, as you say, participant plans are funded in relation to the relationship of relevant impairments in either section 24 or section 25.