Matt Keogh (Burt, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) | Hansard source

As they were informed last week by my office, I am unable to meet with them today, but, as I have continually said, and I engage with many ex-service organisations, we wish to engage with them and the practitioners in allied health services to make sure that we deliver a service that is available with no gap in service while they are accessing the clinically required allied health services.

We want to improve this access by paying allied health service providers more and by making it easier for veterans to access this without having to continually go back to a GP. We will continue to engage with the veterans sector. I am sure that as part of those engagements those people who have visited today will participate in providing feedback and engaging in the consultation forums that we will be running so that we get these reforms right.

If the opposition continue to want to shout instead of actually engaging in the policy development process, they're going to be incredibly unhelpful in getting those positive outcomes— (Time expired)

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