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

I thank the member for his question. I have engaged extensively with RSL around this, and their feedback and making sure—I spoke to them on the day when we delivered the budget around our commitment to engage with the veteran community around how our allied health measures would operate. What we have always been very clear about is that this measure is about increasing access to allied health by making sure there are more allied health professionals providing services and that it's about making it easier for veterans to be able to access those services by removing the treatment cycle—having to continually go back to doctors to get further reports in order to get back to allied health services—and that, when it came to the threshold that we were putting in place instead for a much smaller proportion of veterans, we would always ensure that there was continuity of access and that we would engage with all of the veteran community in relation to how we made sure that we maintain that good access so that—

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