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

I think it's been important to be upfront with the community about the scale of fraud and of leakage in the system. This has been the subject of many discussions during estimates. The point I'll also make is that, for the most part, the providers that work in the NDIS get up every day and try and do the right thing, and they are mortified by the presence of providers who are doing the wrong thing. Where we see fraud, we very, very commonly see examples of harm and exploitation of people with disability. That is not consistent with the human rights objectives of the scheme, it is not consistent with the intentions of the scheme and it's certainly incompatible with delivering for the community that the scheme is designed to assist. We're determined to stamp it out.

I should say, as I think I've made clear in a number of media interviews, these measures around fraud are not primarily designed at sustainability and, for a range of reasons, there are other measures— (Time expired)