Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers) Share this | Hansard source

I am sorry for being a little flippant. There will be an ongoing role for organisations through block funding and through philanthropic processes. We have been working with a number of the organisations which receive quite considerable amounts from the community. We are very clear that we do not want those funds not to be forthcoming from the community. We are working very closely with those organisations to ensure that the partnership we currently have and we will continue to have into the future is very clear to the community, so that the support those organisations currently receive will be ongoing.

This is the most significant legislation I have ever been involved in, but we have been going on the committee for quite some time. I would like to think that we could do the amendments and then we could possibly deal with the general questions that you have—they are legitimate and I am not saying they are not that—after we have dealt with the amendments, so that we get the bill through.