Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

I reiterate my answer to the previous question, which is that the government depends on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee to provide advice to it about which medicines should be listed on the PBS. I understand your question suggests there is some alternative or different mechanism. That is not correct. I reassure senators and, indeed, the public that decisions about which medicines are to be listed are taken by the government on the advice of this committee. That is a process that has operated under both Liberal and Labor governments over a long period of time.