The Greens have secured an eight-week extension of the Senate inquiry into the government’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) legislation – but declared they will vote against it regardless.

The government had little choice but to agree to the extension, which will take several hundred million off its projected savings.

It needed the Greens’ support to pass its tax package before parliament rises for its winter recess, an agreement it has now secured. Anyway, if it had held out against the longer inquiry, the Greens and opposition would have had the numbers to vote for it in the Senate.

The Greens said extending the inquiry until August 14 “would grant more time to build pressure on both Labor and the Liberals to withdraw their support for the bill entirely”.

But they stressed in a statement: “Regardless of amendments, the Greens will oppose the NDIS bill if it comes to a vote”.

The Greens noted they had already........

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