Kanongata'a Anahila; Logie JanANAHILA KANONGATA'A (Labour): Thank you Madam Chair. When will the disabled community see the changes? And the second question to that is if there are any other details you can give us—tell us more about the wage supplement you just spoke about. Hon Carmel Sepuloni: I might just take another question. Thanks Anahila. ANAHILA KANONGATA'A: OK. Hon Carmel Sepuloni: No not from you. JAN LOGIE (Green): I was wondering if Minister Carmel Sepuloni could speak to us about the work support available for disabled people going into employment or education and training and that the Disabled Persons Assembly has done research around that report that has shown a significant drop in the payout. Off the top of my head at the job level it's dropped by about 30 percent—Hon Carmel Sepuloni: What has dropped?JAN LOGIE: Around the work—and I'm not remembering the name of the scheme; a work support scheme for people with disabilities going into employment or education and training. There are two separate funds that are available for people to support them in employment or education and training. The Disabled Persons Assembly have done an analysis of the scheme and found that a lot less money is being paid out and the maximum amount that can possibly be paid out has not been increased since the funds were set up in 1994. They're really concerned and want a review of the funds and also about clearer guidance for employers on reasonable accommodation because there seems to be some confusion where maybe Government has turned the fund into a fund of last resort and is expecting people to put up and pay for basic things themselves or expecting employers to do it as part of their obligations to provide reasonable accommodation. But disabled people feel as if they're stuck in the middle of that and are having to pay for the cost of our disabling society.Hon CARMEL SEPULONI (Minister for Social Development and Employment): The question that the member Jan Logie is asking I think I'm going to need to be put in writing because I don't know if this was something that was discussed through the Estimates preparation or whether that's something that I've been given information about to be honest. So I think it's better that you put that in writing and then we'll follow up.I am relieved to be able to say that there's been a lot of work done on the disabled persons employment action plan and the actions are either achieved or tracking. That was very much informed by disabled people themselves and having that in place will enable us to be able to track our progress with respect to providing real support to disabled people and where we fall short we shouldn't be afraid to put our hands up and say that more needs to be done because as I've said a number of times in this House this is an area and a community that have been underserved with respect to any focus for employment programmes and upskilling and training for far too long. We have started—I feel as a Government—working with disabled people but there is much more to do in that space.I'm just speaking to my colleague the member of Parliament Anahila Kanongata'a. I think the question was whether or not I could tell you more about the wage supplement that we're putting in place to replace the minimum wage exemption. After consultation with disabled people it was really clear that a wage supplement is the only feasible option to replace the minimum wage exemption while protecting existing jobs and that is where we landed. That is what came out of the consultation with disabled people with disabled persons' organisations and also with employers. So that is certainly the route that we decided to take as a consequence of that.