Phillip Thompson (Herbert, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

And it's great to see the members interjections, but I really do stand here with an open heart going, 'We should work together and we should discuss it.'

An honourable member: And open your wallet.

The member opposite interjects: 'And open your wallet.' While it might be funny for the other side to interject, I find the NDIS something extremely serious that we should be discussing and we should be working together on, not just interjecting with comments like, 'open your wallet' and 'just go fund it'. That doesn't help the people who need it; all it does is just divide people once again. But that's what we see countless times from the other side.

I'd like to finish by saying that anyone who has found difficulty with the NDIS and the NDIA in my electorate of Herbert, please contact my office and I'll work closely with them and the minister's office to help out where we can.

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