Jordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

No. Let me clarify. I don't want to get too bogged down here. What I'm trying to identify is: say a participant comes into the scheme in such a way that they are placed on a new framework plan, which creates the requirement for them to spend in line with the requirements of a new framework plan—specifically, the requirement to expend their funds on, to make purchases of, things listed as NDIS supports. Given that you have, in your previous answer, not been able to outline to the Senate what the educational approach is, around what is and is not an NDIS support—you've referred to it as an 'operational matter'—and given that there will be a process of education that the agency has identified during the course of the inquiry, I want to know: will there be any grace period given to those on new framework plans who will be required to spend, in accordance with those plans, only upon NDIS supports, to ensure that they are not penalised while that educational process is occurring?