House debates

Thursday, 29 October 2020

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Aged Care

2:03 pm

Photo of Anthony AlbaneseAnthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is addressed to the Prime Minister: In March the Prime Minister said the government had been working on personal protective equipment for months. Last month, the aged-care royal commission said the shortage of PPE in aged care was 'deplorable'. Can the Prime Minister confirm that between March and August this year his government received 2,865 PPE requests from aged-care providers but rejected over half of them, leaving residents and frontline workers more vulnerable as a result?

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