Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) | Hansard source

First and foremost, I absolutely reject the premise of it because we are not short-changing anybody with a disability. But the thing that's actually causing me the greatest amount of concern here is: those opposite, who profess to be the alternative government, obviously don't understand what a demand-driven system is. If you understood what a demand-driven system is, you would understand why this particular program responds to the demand. As we've heard, the actual individual amounts of money per individual program are not reducing. The individuals who are on plans are receiving almost exactly what was expected. However, because we inherited your half-built plane and we've spent the last while fixing it, we knew we were going to end up with slightly lower numbers of people coming onto the scheme. A reflection on the facts shows the number of recipients entering the scheme has been lower, but what we can say—