National Disability Insurance Scheme

In reply to the Hon. K.L. VINCENT (4 August 2016).

The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety): The Minister for Disabilities has advised that the Department for Communities and Social Inclusion has advised:

1. The media release issued clearly indicates that clients and service providers have been affected by the NDIS MyPlace portal issues.

2. Minister Vlahos has urged the Commonwealth to address the issue on a number of occasions. This has included writing to Minister Porter on 1 August 2016 and more recently tabling a report at the Disability Reform Council in Sydney on 2 September 2016, raising a number of important issues with the transition to the NDIS for South Australia, including the difficulties that service providers were having with the MyPlace portal and requesting that the matter be given the highest priority. The Minister raised these issues at the Disability Reform Council on 2 September, 2016.

3. Yes, and Minister Vlahos has raised these issues with Minister Porter.

4. Refer to answer in question. Furthermore, the minister continues to monitor this issue and recently asked service providers and clients to contact her office to provide details of their experiences in accessing the MyPlace portal.

5. At the time that the bilateral agreement for the NDIS trial was signed in December 2012, the commonwealth and South Australian governments agreed that the data used to estimate the potential trial population was the best estimate available and it was also recognised that the trial population estimates did not capture children with non-global development delay and that numbers could be significantly higher. When the bilateral agreement for full scheme was signed in December 2015 the commonwealth and South Australia agreed to contribute an additional $50 million each to address the delay in rolling out the scheme.