Page 995 - Week 03 - Thursday, 23 March 2017
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MR RAMSAY: The data collection system is under constant review, and part of the way that we have looked at in terms of the review and the ongoing improvement of the system is the integrated case management system.
MS CHEYNE: Minister, can you tell us about the DPP’s new bail review power?
MR RAMSAY: I thank Ms Cheyne for her supplementary. The bail review power is one of the important ways that the conditions around bail have been considered over time. The bail review amendments that went through this Assembly last year are important when there are concerns around a serious offender. The bail review power means that the Director of Public Prosecutions will have a limited amount of time to be able to call for a review by the Supreme Court of a decision that has been made by a magistrate. It is one of the ways that we are working quickly and effectively to ensure the ongoing improvement of our bail system and the ongoing security of our legal system in this city.
SHOUT—government support
MS LEE: My question is to the Minister for Community Services and Social Inclusion. Minister, yesterday in the Canberra Times it was reported that—and I quote:
SHOUT, which has been pleading with ACT Health for alternative funding since last August, has been told by Territory ministers it should seek funding from the NDIS even though many of its member groups have a health, not a disability, focus, and even though it does not meet NDIS funding criteria.
The ACT bureaucracy, pushed outside its comfort zone by an administrative change it has seen coming for more than five years, appears to have put the needs of thousands of ill and disabled Canberrans into the too hard basket rather than risk coming up with an innovative solution. It is time for the ACT Government to find a way to break this impasse and help keep this low-cost, highly valued—
MADAM SPEAKER: Is there a question, Ms Lee?
MS LEE: This is a quote. It continues:
community organisation doing what it does best—serving our community.
Minister, given that—
MADAM SPEAKER: I do apologise, Ms Lee. I thought you were just talking.
MS LEE: Minister, given that that is not the first time there have been reports that SHOUT funding is not within the NDIS ambit, why is it that you have continually asked SHOUT to apply for funding under the NDIS?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I note that I am taking this in my capacity as Minister for Disability, Children and Youth. SHOUT is currently funded under NDIS. It is
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