Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Emergency Management) Share this | Hansard source

(—) (): I thank the senator for her supplementary question. As Minister Shorten said yesterday, the passing of this legislation is the construction of a scaffold which will allow the government to co-design the priority reforms recommended by the independent NDIS review. The legislation does a few simple things. It stops the automatic top-up of participant plans that are exhausted early without change in circumstances. It creates the architecture to implement the NDIS review's recommendation to develop a total whole-of-person budget that is more flexible for all participants, and it allows for the exclusion of supports that are not consistent with the original intent of the NDIA and those that are supposed to be funded by other service systems. This will provide the necessary legislative framework to improve the experience of participants and deliver decisions that are fair, transparent and consistent. (Time expired)