National Disability Insurance Scheme

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (14:47): A further supplementary: just to confirm, if you do prefer to have those people out in the community, is the government funding for the replacement of that funding being taken out?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:47): Yes, I'm sorry, obviously I didn't do a very good job of explaining it in my last four or five answers. This is not money that we are taking out. This is the commonwealth in the federal budget taking out money from, if you like, post-NDIS services—in other words, services that they don't think will be needed after the NDIS is rolled out—before the rollout has been completed. There is no—

The Hon. C.M. Scriven interjecting:

The Hon. S.G. WADE: Excuse me. This issue is in relation to commonwealth funding, not state funding.