Disability Services

The Hon. J.E. HANSON (15:19): Has the minister assured herself that the Incident Management Unit is properly resourced in the wake of the deaths of Annie Smith and Debbie Pearce?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (15:19): There have been a lot of conversations within government about critical incidents. The honourable member has referred to Ann Marie Smith and I just need to remind members that she wasn't actually a client of ours, she was a client of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The appropriate oversight body for quality and safeguarding for her was the NDIS Commission or the Quality and Safeguards Commission.

I have confidence that the Incident Management Unit has the appropriate HR resources. We have conducted an external review to ensure that the standards and levels are as they should be. I am quite confident that it is a robust system, but we believe in systems improvements and so that is currently being conducted and will be implemented as appropriate.