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

Without committing to the precise circumstances that you set out in the question, because people may be listening and thinking about their own circumstances and applying that to their expectations about how this might operate, that kind of commonsense approach is exactly what is envisaged to be the subject of that consultation process and that outcome. It is the kind of approach that is driving the minister's and the government's thinking about how people are able to use the functional assessment process to access the scheme; how they'll be treated and, as you say, Senator Hughes, allocated under sections 24 and 25; and what the meaning of that might be.