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

My question is to the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Specialist disability accommodation, SDA, delivers specialised housing support for Australians with very high needs and is designed to attract private market investment. Under the scheme, the government asks private investors to build small-scale, customised houses and will pay investors about $110,000 per year for each eligible person who moves in. But, as we learned from ABC's Four Corners program last night, the scheme is being rorted by dodgy developers ripping off mum and dad investors. These Australians thought they were doing the right thing, the ethical thing, and they ended up losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process while many disabled people still don't have suitable houses to live in. Minister, how many SDA houses have been built, and how many of these houses are unoccupied at this point in time?