Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Ageing. Given that the minister’s department identified the need for 1,208 new residential aged-care beds in Western Australia in the 2008-09 aged-care approvals round but delivered only 519 new beds, a shortfall of 689, and that in the first 15 months of the government’s term over 280 Western Australian bed licences were handed back to the department, can the minister advise the House where future aged and frail Western Australians in the southern suburbs of Perth will be accommodated in aged care? And how does the minister propose to make bed licences attractive to Western Australian providers?

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