NATIONAL INJURY INSURANCE SCHEME

The Hon. I.F. EVANS (Davenport) (14:29): My question is to the Minister for Disabilities. As the state government has agreed to sign up to the full NDIS by 2018, can the minister advise the house if the government has agreed to sign up to the full National Injury Insurance Scheme?

The Hon. A. PICCOLO (Light—Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion, Minister for Social Housing, Minister for Disabilities, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteers) (14:30): Can I just have the last part of that question again, Mr Speaker?

The Hon. I.F. EVANS: As the government has agreed to sign up to the full NDIS by 2018, can the minister advise the house if the government has agreed to sign up to the full National Injury Insurance Scheme, the NIIS?

The Hon. A. PICCOLO: Mr Speaker, that's not my portfolio area.

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (14:30): If I might be able to assist the honourable member, the position is this: there has been discussion in some detail about the NDIS arrangements. Those arrangements have been, as the member for Davenport says, now resolved between the state and the commonwealth, but the more expensive scheme, as I understand it, is one that has not progressed to that extent. There is presently no formal agreement between the commonwealth and any of the states, as far as I am aware, about that particular matter.