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

It will be based on individuals. As you say, Senator Hughes, for a participant who's a child and whose needs are changing, their needs assessment process may be more continuous. That will be determined by the needs assessor. For the other group that you described, if we can characterise them as an adult with paraplegia or a similar condition where their circumstances aren't going to change, their plans will go for the full five years. You would expect, within the commonsense framework, that the plan going on to the next five years would be a relatively straightforward approach for people in that category. But there is, as you've indicated, Senator Hughes, a more intensive process for people whose needs are changing.