Page 1759 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 4 June 2014
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(2) calls on the Minister for Disability, Children and Young People to:
(a) continue to involve the community in the development of non-government early intervention programs in the ACT in readiness for the beginning of 2015;
(b) ensure that Directorates specifically engage with the families affected by the transition to non-government early intervention services in 2015;
(c) facilitate families receiving timely information about the early intervention services available by hosting an expo of providers in the first three weeks of Term 4, 2014;
(d) report to the Assembly in the first sitting week of Term 4, 2014 with an update of the readiness of early intervention non-government service providers to commence in the 2015 school year; and
(e) provide regular reports to the Assembly on the implementation of NDIS disability reform in the ACT.”.
Mr Wall has said that he has concerns on three planks: the role of government, the phasing and the price. I am pleased to know he understands at the get go that the principle of phasing out of government responsibility for service provision would be Canberra Liberal policy. It is only now that he wants to come in, at the eleventh hour, and play politics on this.
He has also raised the question of phasing. Let us be very clear about this. I am pleased to share a letter from Senator Fifield to my office today that in many ways gives us for the first time the freedom to announce the phasing structure. That is one thing that has been—
Mr Wall: Hear, hear! Twenty-six days to go and it has come.
MS BURCH: You can blame that on the in-tray of somebody up on the hill. It certainly has not been in my in-tray. You have also raised the matter of price.
Mr Doszpot: How often do you clear out your in-tray?
MS BURCH: It has been sitting in the Prime Minister’s in-tray, if you really want to know, Mr Doszpot. So if you have got a complaint about that, send it up there to make that—
Members interjecting—
MS BURCH: He has to sign it off.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Minister Burch, resume your seat. Stop the clock, please. Mr Wall, Chief Minister, stop having a conversation across the chamber. Ms Burch, refer your comments through the chair. Thank you.
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