National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Bill 2025

Senator McALLISTER (New South Wales—Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) (12:56): I can indicate, as I did in my second reading contribution, that the government supports the amendment moved by the coalition. We thank the coalition for reaching out to us and working with us to draft an appropriate response to the issue that was identified during the committee stage.

The committee identified that an unintended consequence of the way that the provisions had been drawn in the bill would be to allow a correspondence nominee to withdraw a participant from the scheme. That is beyond the scope of what was intended as the role of the correspondence nominee, and the government supports clarifying that the planned nominee is best placed to exercise this function.

The TEMPORARY CHAIR ( Senator Kovacic ): The question is that amendments (1) and (2) on sheet 3719 be agreed to. Question agreed to. The TEMPORARY CHAIR: The question is that item (3), schedule 2 on sheet 3719 stand as printed.

Question negatived.