Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

We have started to build the national scheme and from 2018 under this government we will have a NDIS. So I am interested to know that when the senator is asked, 'Will you ask the government whether they are fully committed to funding it,' whether they also ask you, 'Is the Liberal-National coalition committed?' and I wonder, Senator, whether you are honest with them. Do you tell them you have committed nothing? Do you tell them that the shadow spokesman for the Treasury has made it clear that you cannot add to the $70 billion black hole anymore—that you have committed to paying back the super tax to the big mining companies, and that that will drive every expenditure cut you have to make and prevent you implementing new programs like the NDIS? That is the reality.

This government is committed to the NDIS, we are funding it and we are rolling it out. That is in sharp contrast to the Liberals' commitment— (Time expired)