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

Certainly the NDIS is designed as a scheme that has a joint responsibility between the federal government and the states and territories. There are very clear and specific funding arrangements, in terms of responsibility and liability that sit within the scheme. In a more general sense, in terms of the actual delivery of the services and supports to people on the ground in the various states, when it comes to the NDIS they are quite specific. But I take your point in relation to the interface between the states and the Commonwealth in the broader disability space. It is very clearly our desire to continue to run in parallel the maintenance of the obligations of the states in terms of the delivery of the appropriate services and supports that fit around disability more generally to ensure that people who either choose not to or are not eligible for the NDIS can still get access to the kind of mainstream disability-appropriate services and supports that we all expect that people with disability should be able to have access to.