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

This scheme needs to be sustainable. I want this scheme to be here in a decade's time and two decades time. In 10 years time, there will be a little boy or a little girl born with a significant impairment and disability, and I want that child and their family to know that this scheme will be there for them. Minister Butler has made clear publicly that the measures we are bringing forward are measures we would have brought forward in any case, irrespective of the budget context, to return this scheme to its original intent, which is to provide support to people with significant and permanent disability and to ensure that, for those people for whom this scheme is not going to be their primary means of getting support, there are other supports. We have worked with the states and territories on Thriving Kids and we will continue to work with them on foundational supports with the $10 billion provisioned in— (Time expired)