Page 1902 - Week 06 - Thursday, 9 May 2013
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The outcome of the meeting was that the Voting Shareholders agreed to the Special Resolution to amend the constitution to increase the maximum number of members on the ACTEW Board from seven to eight.
Disability services—funding
Ms Burch (in reply to supplementary questions by Mrs Jones and Mr Coe on Wednesday, 10 April 2013): The Commonwealth will provide the ACT Government with $10.6 million to assist in delivering enhanced services and to provide support to assist in the preparations for the launch of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
The Commonwealth has also agreed that an additional $12 million of Commonwealth funding will be spent in the ACT, to deliver a national strategy for the sector and workforce development.
The Pre-Election Budget Update estimated an additional annual recurrent cost to the ACT Government of around $40 million for the full roll-out of the NDIS. This figure was a preliminary estimate and is being further refined, taking into account the actual services to be included under the NDIS.
The Commonwealth is currently finalising its additional financial investment for full roll-out which is over and above the services it currently funds.
The commitment to launch the NDIS in the ACT was formalised at the 7 December 2012 meeting of the Council on Australian Governments (COAG) through the signing of the Intergovernmental Agreement for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Launch.
The agreement notes for the ACT that the first stage of the NDIS will commence in July 2014. Both the Commonwealth and the ACT will contribute to the costs of the launch site including the costs of individual support packages.
The agreement also acknowledges that further work needs to occur in order to finalise the balance of cash and in-kind contributions.
Estimates of the additional funding required by the ACT Government for the NDIS will be included in the 2013-14 ACT Budget.
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