House debates

Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Questions without Notice

Disability Services

3:21 pm

Photo of Bill ShortenBill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. For eight months before 23-year-old Liam Danher choked to death during an epileptic seizure in his sleep, his family fought the government for a $445 seizure mat which they say would have saved his life. Given what the government knows now, including that the legal and administrative cost of fighting the family was much more than the cost of the seizure mat itself, would it have handled things differently and just accepted the claim?

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