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

I can indicate, as I did in my second reading contribution, that the government supports the amendment moved by the coalition. We thank the coalition for reaching out to us and working with us to draft an appropriate response to the issue that was identified during the committee stage.

The committee identified that an unintended consequence of the way that the provisions had been drawn in the bill would be to allow a correspondence nominee to withdraw a participant from the scheme. That is beyond the scope of what was intended as the role of the correspondence nominee, and the government supports clarifying that the planned nominee is best placed to exercise this function.