10. Disability Care—Cessation of IDEA ServicesPOTO WILLIAMS (Labour—Christchurch East) to the Minister for Disability IssuesDisability Care—Cessation of IDEA Services10. POTO WILLIAMS (Labour—Christchurch East) to the Minister for Disability Issues: Does she stand by her answers to supplementary questions on 23 March 2017?Hon NICKY WAGNER (Minister for Disability Issues): Yes in the context that they were given. However I would like to make one correction. I am advised that last year IDEA Services received almost $220 million in funding not $151.9 million which I stated previously.Chris Hipkins: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. If a Minister becomes aware that information they have given to the House is incorrect there is an obligation on them—in fact a requirement on them—to correct it at the first available opportunity not to wait until somebody asks another question and then use that question as the basis on which they correct their answer.Mr SPEAKER: The member is absolutely correct. There is an obligation on Ministers whenever they answer questions subsequently realising that it is not correct to come back at the earliest opportunity to correct that answer. In this case it has been done very belatedly via another question being raised. The member needs to consider whether he thinks it is serious enough to lodge a breach of privilege and then I would have to consider it in the light of judging whether it was deliberate and whether it has seriously disadvantaged accountability to the House. I have reminded Ministers many times that they might get some figures wrong. They are expected to return to the House as soon as possible to correct those figures.Poto Williams: When she was asked Does she accept that IDEA Services Ltd faces limited funding and pressure on its services requiring it to cut its disability support services by 5 percent" why did she answer that IDEA Services has an increase in funding and was it an increase for the provision of disability support?Hon NICKY WAGNER: The funding for IDEA Services has increased from just over $183 million in 2008 to just under $220 million last year. That is why I said it has had more money. Poto Williams: Why does IDEA Services quote in a letter to families dated 4 April 2017 that underfunding of over $500000 in the 2016-17 year and no offer of increase for the coming year means it cannot continue to provide services and has been unable to renew the contract with the Ministry of Health?Hon NICKY WAGNER: I am incredibly disappointed that an organisation like IDEA Services which says it cares for our vulnerable disabled people has been so irresponsible as to cut services without notice. I have been advised by the Ministry of Health that it was informed only last week that IDEA Services did not intend to renew its contract after previously indicating that it would. It also gave no notice to its clients and what is worse IDEA Services refused to agree to a temporary 3-month contract to allow arrangements to be made to look after its clients.Poto Williams: I seek leave to table a letter from IDEA Services to families of clients dated 4 April 2017.Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table that particular letter. Is there any objection to it being tabled? There is not. It can be tabled.Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.Poto Williams: What does the Minister say to Diana whose daughter waited 18 months for a social skills course which has now been cut; or Shannon who says "I shudder to think what the next few months will be like."; or Francesca who has two autistic children and says that before IDEA Services' help came along 2 years ago they were in crisis?Hon NICKY WAGNER: I say that IDEA Services is being totally irresponsible. We all know that change can be difficult for some people and their families and particularly for this cohort of clients for whom routine and security is so important. It is just not acceptable that IDEA Services has refused to allow a transition period and what is more told its clients only after it had cut the service.Poto Williams: Would the Minister now like to correct her answer to the supplementary question "Has IDEA Services received sufficient funding from the Government to cover minimum wage increases over the past 6 years?"Hon NICKY WAGNER: No I would not. The member is confusing two different issues. In late March IDEA Services decided to change its business model and relinquish 5 percent of its contracts. It was working with the Ministry of Health and it agreed to work together responsibly to transition its clients. Today we are discussing IDEA Services cancelling the contract without notice—without notice—either to the Ministry of Health or to its vulnerable clients. On top of that—[Interruption] That was after the contract was cancelled. What is more it turned down the opportunity offered by the Ministry of Health to allow it to take care of its clients and transition them. It is appalling."