Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Our government will continue to address the needs of in-home aged-care places in this country as the demand continues to increase. As I said, in recent years we have taken every single opportunity to increase the number of places. I would hope those opposite would be aware that when you increase the number of in-home aged-care places you need to ensure that you have the workforce to support those in-home aged-care places. That has been a constant matter raised through the course of the royal commission, and the royal commission has identified those very serious workforce needs to support the additional supply of places into the system. It is no different, in fact, as the Minister for the NDIS will know, to ensuring supply of those additional places in the NDIS; we need the workforce to support that. The government is addressing both of these issues.

This is a terribly serious issue. We have sought to address it with each and every opportunity we have, and we will continue to do that in the interest of providing the best possible aged care to Australians in their homes where they seek to have that support.

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