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

Yes. It certainly means that the CEO will be able to determine those specified supports or substitutes for specific participants and in limited and specific circumstances and that a participant will only be able to request a substitution if it's replacing a support that is more cost effective.

In addition to that, the definition of NDIS support does make clear the constitutional basis for the new budget-setting framework recommended by the NDIS review and helps to clarify and identify the constitutional basis for the NDIS as a whole, which assists having a proper basis for decision-making and also assists participants and providers to understand what is and, we would say, always has been capable of being funded by the NDIS, having regard to the intergovernmental agreements and constitutional considerations. So, yes, you're correct. It gives the CEO the capacity to make, in those limited circumstances, appropriate arrangements, but it also clarifies and supports the decision-making and the constitutional basis for the NDIS as a whole.