Tammy Tyrrell (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

The job of the Medical Services Advisory Committee, MSAC, is to recommend whether to fund medical technologies, which means they become affordable for the average Australian. But there are delays with the committee approving things which can be of up to eight years from the first submission. Then there are delays in the government's approval process after the MSAC recommendation which can take a further two years. Can the minister advise specifically what is being done to address this bottleneck?