Page 996 - Week 03 - Thursday, 23 March 2017
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currently funded by the commonwealth government under a transitional funding arrangement that was put in place during the transition to the information, linkages and capacity building scheme implementation.
Mr Coe interjecting—
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: This transitional funding—
Mr Coe interjecting—
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: from the commonwealth government was negotiated by the ACT government—
Ms Berry: A point of order, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: Please sit down.
Ms Berry: Surely, the leaders in this place can provide a better example and not be continuously interrupting members of the government when they are trying to respond to a question about something that is of serious concern to the ACT community.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Ms Berry. Ms Berry does remind members that every question time there are repeated calls to cease interjecting. Can we finish question time without the banter from the opposition? Thank you. I call the minister for disability.
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: Thank you, Madam Speaker, and good luck with that. As I have been saying, SHOUT was funded through the transitional arrangements to ILC from the commonwealth government because the program in Disability ACT that used to fund SHOUT and a number of other organisations was transitioned to the National Disability Insurance Agency as part of our transitional arrangements to the NDIS. Quite a number of community organisations were assessed as to their potential eligibility for ILC during that transitional arrangement. SHOUT was assessed as receiving 100 per cent of its funding during transition because, as CSD officials stated very clearly in the annual report hearings, it was considered that the types of services that SHOUT provides fitted very well into the new NDIS ILC grant program. (Time expired.)
MS LEE: What are the member organisations of SHOUT that the ACT government has also put into the too-hard basket?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I completely reject the premise of the question. I have said repeatedly over the past few days that I am working—I, my office, the directorate, the Health Directorate and the Minister for Health—very closely with SHOUT, with other community organisations and with SHOUT members to ensure that the services that SHOUT currently provides to its members will continue or that those members will continue to receive the support they need.
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