Ewen Jones (Herbert, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Social Services. Will the minister update the House on how the government will secure the future of the National Disability Insurance Scheme? How will an NDIS benefit the people of Queensland, including in my electorate of Herbert and my city of Townsville?

Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Herbert for his question. As he is aware, yesterday the Prime Minister and the Queensland Premier signed the agreement which will be the transitional bilateral for Queensland. Ninety-one thousand participants in Queensland now have complete certainty about the rollout of the NDIS in Queensland. What that means is that NDIS bilaterals have been signed with South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT. This means that 85 per cent of the 460,000 Australians with a disability who are expected to be eligible have complete certainty as we move forward to the full rollout of the NDIS in 2019.

At full-scheme rollout, the bill for the NDIS will be $22 billion a year. Yesterday in this place the government introduced the National Disability Insurance Scheme Savings Fund Special Account Bill, which will create a special account to make up for the fact that, most unfortunately, the member for Lilley did not leave enough secure and identifiable money for the scheme. Now, you may know the answer, Mr Speaker—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I say to the minister: I am not here to answer questions.

Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to this multiple-choice question. Which of the following is true: (a) the member for Lilley delivered four surpluses in one night; (b) the member for Lilley raised $11 billion from the mining tax in two years; (c) the member for Lilley provided a secure, identifiable source of funds to fully provide for the $11.3 billion NDIS; (d) the member for Lilley was named world's best Treasurer? In an excruciating twist of irony, the only one of those four that it is true is the final one.

The member for Lilley claims that a missing $5 billion actually exists. The Commonwealth government will be committed to $11.3 billion worth of funding to the NDIS. Of that, $1.1 billion comes from existing Commonwealth funding, $3.3 billion from the Medicare levy and $1.9 billion from existing specialist disability services. That leaves a gap of $5 billion. We have created an account into which we will place identified—

Mr Swan interjecting—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Lilley will cease interjecting and using unparliamentary terms.

Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

savings to the tune of $5 billion over the next period of three years, to 2019. If members opposite do not believe that this is required, will they seriously vote against a bill that creates a special account for where savings can be identified and secured to pay for the NDIS? That will be the test of their mettle on this. Will they support a bill that funds the NDIS?

Mr Bowen interjecting—

Mr Nikolic interjecting—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for McMahon will resume his seat. The member for Bass will resume his seat.

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Given your admonition earlier about taking my points of order from the dispatch box rather than my seat—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It is the only place you can take them, I say to the Leader of the House!

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have approached the dispatch box. I would ask that you ask the member for Lilley to withdraw the unparliamentary statements he was making during the minister's answer. He knows they are unparliamentary. I ask that he withdraw them.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the House will resume his seat. This is not a criticism of the Leader of the House, but I was about to do that at the conclusion of the answer rather than interrupt the answer. I say to the member for Lilley that he knows the words he was using are unparliamentary. I ask him to withdraw.

Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I will not withdraw. It is a lie.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I say to the member for Lilley, it is—

Mr Hunt interjecting—

The Minister for the Environment will not interject. I have asked the member for Lilley to withdraw. All members who have used those words have been asked to withdraw.

Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I will not withdraw. It is a lie.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I name the member for Lilley!

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the member for Lilley be suspended from the service of the House.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the motion moved by the Leader of the House be agreed to.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The honourable member for Lilley is suspended from the service of the House for 24 hours under standing order 94(b).

The member for Lilley then left the chamber.

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.