❓ Dr. Woollard questions the Minister for Disability Services about funding for accommodation support for people with disabilities, given unmet needs and growing demand. The Minister acknowledges the issue, highlights increased state funding, and outlines plans for a comprehensive solution, contrasting it with the lack of federal support.
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(1) As the Government has provided funding in this year’s budget for accommodation support for an additional 75 people with disabilities, can the minister say when funding will be available to assist the remaining 56 people classified as priority 1 cases who applied for funding last year? (2) When will funding be available to assist the additional 132 people with disabilities who failed to get accommodation support during 2001-02? (3) Considering the likelihood that many more people will apply in the coming year, what plan does the Government have to address and resolve this growing crisis? Ms McHALE
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(1)-(3) I thank the member for her question. She is right in reaffirming to the House that the demand is currently outstripping the supply. This budget provides a significant increase in funding to families with a member with a disability. That funding is not only for accommodation support. We have provided an additional 30 places over and above the forward estimates. We have provided $12 million of extra funding for accommodation support, respite alternatives to accommodation, and therapy and professional services. That increase in funding from the State Government is a significant increase; and I remind members on both sides that it is provided without any growth whatsoever in funding from the federal Government. We will be moving towards setting up a comprehensive plan, which is what the sector has asked for, to meet the demand. We have done three things. We have ensured our continuing commitment to families with a member with a disability by providing that $12 million increase in funding, $7 million of which will go straight towards increasing service delivery. We have increased funding to allow for some of the cost pressures on non-government agencies, and we have appointed an accommodation steering committee that will work with the non-government sector to plan how we can meet the increasing demands placed on all Governments. Unlike the federal Government, this Government is approaching the social issue with commitment and a considered attitude that will hopefully set the scene to deal with the unmet need.
(2) When will funding be available to assist the additional 132 people with disabilities who failed to get accommodation support during 2001-02? (3) Considering the likelihood that many more people will apply in the coming year, what plan does the Government have to address and resolve this growing crisis? Ms McHALE replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for her question. She is right in reaffirming to the House that the demand is currently outstripping the supply. This budget provides a significant increase in funding to families with a member with a disability. That funding is not only for accommodation support. We have provided an additional 30 places over and above the forward estimates. We have provided $12 million of extra funding for accommodation support, respite alternatives to accommodation, and therapy and professional services. That increase in funding from the State Government is a significant increase; and I remind members on both sides that it is provided without any growth whatsoever in funding from the federal Government. We will be moving towards setting up a comprehensive plan, which is what the sector has asked for, to meet the demand. We have done three things. We have ensured our continuing commitment to families with a member with a disability by providing that $12 million increase in funding, $7 million of which will go straight towards increasing service delivery. We have increased funding to allow for some of the cost pressures on non-government agencies, and we have appointed an accommodation steering committee that will work with the non-government sector to plan how we can meet the increasing demands placed on all Governments. Unlike the federal Government, this Government is approaching the social issue with commitment and a considered attitude that will hopefully set the scene to deal with the unmet need.
(3) Considering the likelihood that many more people will apply in the coming year, what plan does the Government have to address and resolve this growing crisis? Ms McHALE replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for her question. She is right in reaffirming to the House that the demand is currently outstripping the supply. This budget provides a significant increase in funding to families with a member with a disability. That funding is not only for accommodation support. We have provided an additional 30 places over and above the forward estimates. We have provided $12 million of extra funding for accommodation support, respite alternatives to accommodation, and therapy and professional services. That increase in funding from the State Government is a significant increase; and I remind members on both sides that it is provided without any growth whatsoever in funding from the federal Government. We will be moving towards setting up a comprehensive plan, which is what the sector has asked for, to meet the demand. We have done three things. We have ensured our continuing commitment to families with a member with a disability by providing that $12 million increase in funding, $7 million of which will go straight towards increasing service delivery. We have increased funding to allow for some of the cost pressures on non-government agencies, and we have appointed an accommodation steering committee that will work with the non-government sector to plan how we can meet the increasing demands placed on all Governments. Unlike the federal Government, this Government is approaching the social issue with commitment and a considered attitude that will hopefully set the scene to deal with the unmet need.
Ms McHALE replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for her question. She is right in reaffirming to the House that the demand is currently outstripping the supply. This budget provides a significant increase in funding to families with a member with a disability. That funding is not only for accommodation support. We have provided an additional 30 places over and above the forward estimates. We have provided $12 million of extra funding for accommodation support, respite alternatives to accommodation, and therapy and professional services. That increase in funding from the State Government is a significant increase; and I remind members on both sides that it is provided without any growth whatsoever in funding from the federal Government. We will be moving towards setting up a comprehensive plan, which is what the sector has asked for, to meet the demand. We have done three things. We have ensured our continuing commitment to families with a member with a disability by providing that $12 million increase in funding, $7 million of which will go straight towards increasing service delivery. We have increased funding to allow for some of the cost pressures on non-government agencies, and we have appointed an accommodation steering committee that will work with the non-government sector to plan how we can meet the increasing demands placed on all Governments. Unlike the federal Government, this Government is approaching the social issue with commitment and a considered attitude that will hopefully set the scene to deal with the unmet need.
(1)-(3) I thank the member for her question. She is right in reaffirming to the House that the demand is currently outstripping the supply. This budget provides a significant increase in funding to families with a member with a disability. That funding is not only for accommodation support. We have provided an additional 30 places over and above the forward estimates. We have provided $12 million of extra funding for accommodation support, respite alternatives to accommodation, and therapy and professional services. That increase in funding from the State Government is a significant increase; and I remind members on both sides that it is provided without any growth whatsoever in funding from the federal Government. We will be moving towards setting up a comprehensive plan, which is what the sector has asked for, to meet the demand. We have done three things. We have ensured our continuing commitment to families with a member with a disability by providing that $12 million increase in funding, $7 million of which will go straight towards increasing service delivery. We have increased funding to allow for some of the cost pressures on non-government agencies, and we have appointed an accommodation steering committee that will work with the non-government sector to plan how we can meet the increasing demands placed on all Governments. Unlike the federal Government, this Government is approaching the social issue with commitment and a considered attitude that will hopefully set the scene to deal with the unmet need.
(2) When will funding be available to assist the additional 132 people with disabilities who failed to get accommodation support during 2001-02? (3) Considering the likelihood that many more people will apply in the coming year, what plan does the Government have to address and resolve this growing crisis? Ms McHALE replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for her question. She is right in reaffirming to the House that the demand is currently outstripping the supply. This budget provides a significant increase in funding to families with a member with a disability. That funding is not only for accommodation support. We have provided an additional 30 places over and above the forward estimates. We have provided $12 million of extra funding for accommodation support, respite alternatives to accommodation, and therapy and professional services. That increase in funding from the State Government is a significant increase; and I remind members on both sides that it is provided without any growth whatsoever in funding from the federal Government. We will be moving towards setting up a comprehensive plan, which is what the sector has asked for, to meet the demand. We have done three things. We have ensured our continuing commitment to families with a member with a disability by providing that $12 million increase in funding, $7 million of which will go straight towards increasing service delivery. We have increased funding to allow for some of the cost pressures on non-government agencies, and we have appointed an accommodation steering committee that will work with the non-government sector to plan how we can meet the increasing demands placed on all Governments. Unlike the federal Government, this Government is approaching the social issue with commitment and a considered attitude that will hopefully set the scene to deal with the unmet need.
(3) Considering the likelihood that many more people will apply in the coming year, what plan does the Government have to address and resolve this growing crisis? Ms McHALE replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for her question. She is right in reaffirming to the House that the demand is currently outstripping the supply. This budget provides a significant increase in funding to families with a member with a disability. That funding is not only for accommodation support. We have provided an additional 30 places over and above the forward estimates. We have provided $12 million of extra funding for accommodation support, respite alternatives to accommodation, and therapy and professional services. That increase in funding from the State Government is a significant increase; and I remind members on both sides that it is provided without any growth whatsoever in funding from the federal Government. We will be moving towards setting up a comprehensive plan, which is what the sector has asked for, to meet the demand. We have done three things. We have ensured our continuing commitment to families with a member with a disability by providing that $12 million increase in funding, $7 million of which will go straight towards increasing service delivery. We have increased funding to allow for some of the cost pressures on non-government agencies, and we have appointed an accommodation steering committee that will work with the non-government sector to plan how we can meet the increasing demands placed on all Governments. Unlike the federal Government, this Government is approaching the social issue with commitment and a considered attitude that will hopefully set the scene to deal with the unmet need.
Ms McHALE replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for her question. She is right in reaffirming to the House that the demand is currently outstripping the supply. This budget provides a significant increase in funding to families with a member with a disability. That funding is not only for accommodation support. We have provided an additional 30 places over and above the forward estimates. We have provided $12 million of extra funding for accommodation support, respite alternatives to accommodation, and therapy and professional services. That increase in funding from the State Government is a significant increase; and I remind members on both sides that it is provided without any growth whatsoever in funding from the federal Government. We will be moving towards setting up a comprehensive plan, which is what the sector has asked for, to meet the demand. We have done three things. We have ensured our continuing commitment to families with a member with a disability by providing that $12 million increase in funding, $7 million of which will go straight towards increasing service delivery. We have increased funding to allow for some of the cost pressures on non-government agencies, and we have appointed an accommodation steering committee that will work with the non-government sector to plan how we can meet the increasing demands placed on all Governments. Unlike the federal Government, this Government is approaching the social issue with commitment and a considered attitude that will hopefully set the scene to deal with the unmet need.
(1)-(3) I thank the member for her question. She is right in reaffirming to the House that the demand is currently outstripping the supply. This budget provides a significant increase in funding to families with a member with a disability. That funding is not only for accommodation support. We have provided an additional 30 places over and above the forward estimates. We have provided $12 million of extra funding for accommodation support, respite alternatives to accommodation, and therapy and professional services. That increase in funding from the State Government is a significant increase; and I remind members on both sides that it is provided without any growth whatsoever in funding from the federal Government. We will be moving towards setting up a comprehensive plan, which is what the sector has asked for, to meet the demand. We have done three things. We have ensured our continuing commitment to families with a member with a disability by providing that $12 million increase in funding, $7 million of which will go straight towards increasing service delivery. We have increased funding to allow for some of the cost pressures on non-government agencies, and we have appointed an accommodation steering committee that will work with the non-government sector to plan how we can meet the increasing demands placed on all Governments. Unlike the federal Government, this Government is approaching the social issue with commitment and a considered attitude that will hopefully set the scene to deal with the unmet need.
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