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

We have chosen this approach because we saw the alternative on offer. What did that look like? It looked like 22 per cent growth per annum in the NDIS. No social program can be sustainable with that level of spending growth. We have reduced that now to 10 per cent per annum. The growth is now half of what it was under those opposite. But the ANAO said that the system those opposite set up lacked basic prevention controls for fraud and noncompliance. It lacked basic controls. To give you just one example, there are now more NDIS claims reviewed in a single day than were reviewed in a year under those opposite. This is about much more than budget savings; this is about the future of this scheme and the social licence of this scheme. We are determined to secure that future and that social licence so people with disability continue to get the support that they require.