Designed to help those with conditions ranging from autism to spinal cord injury, the NDIS was set up in 2013 with the aim of helping those with a disability.

Through offering help with services to those with impairments and support to their families and carers it was aimed to filling a gap in government welfare support.

However, in practice it has been far from ideal and the story of Lavington mother Elizabeth Noone and her struggle to get help for her daughter Jasmine, 11, seems symptomatic of the program that is failing.

Jasmine has an intellectual disability, autism, epilepsy and diabetes.

She also is non-verbal and regularly becomes upset with her emotions sometimes expressed in a violent manner.

Faced with such a situation, Jasmine obviously qualifies for the NDIS but as her mother has found it is not easy to fully access.

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Ms Noone tells of facing a bureaucratic maze which has left her thinking it would be easier to put Jasmine into foster care.

That should not be the upshot of the NDIS, but it underlines how frustrating the system is for a mum swamped by red tape.

The re-elected federal government has shown it is serious about supporting the scheme by having a dedicated Minister for the NDIS in its Cabinet.

That job has fallen to Gold Coast MP Stuart Robert, who has the task of fulfilling Coalition promises to have an NDIS service guarantee, single point of contact and reduce waits for plans to be approved and implemented.

With the scheme to be fully rolled out in 2020 and participant numbers tipped to rise from 277,000 to 460,000 by that time there are going to be pressures.

Much of the success or not will be related to funding.

The NDIS needs to be properly supported and the money spent in a way in which the benefits to the disabled are tangible.

Sadly if more stories like that of Jasmine and her mother emerge it will be evidence of failure.

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