Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the House) | Hansard source

I'll be brief. To clarify some of the remarks from the member for Kooyong, I think she understands that IHACPA's advice on aged-care pricing is still a decision made by government in the same way that we're seeking for the pricing advice that would go through the annual pricing review, the board and the minister to also be a decision of government. I've said publicly a number of times now that I see real merit in adopting the recommendation of the NDIS review and moving pricing of the NDIS, in time, to IHACPA. The preliminary work that IHACPA has done on that confirms, particularly with our experience of aged care, that this would be a long process. In the meantime, having much more certainty around pricing on an annual basis, with advice from the board to the minister and publication—pursuant to the amendment that we supported from, I think, the member for Indi—is a huge advance on where we've been. We don't support these amendments.

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