Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

I want to thank the member for Mayo. I think this is a very important question. One of the reforms that we put in place with regard to My Aged Care was precisely to ensure that fees were published. The advice I have is that 93 per cent of My Aged Care home-care provider fees are already being published, and I have asked the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner, Janet Anderson, to ensure that all are published or to take action to ensure there are show cause notices. So I think that the point you raise is very important.

The second element you raised is that individuals under our reforms must be given notice of the level of fees. That was brought into being as at 1 July 2020. The third element you raised was with regard to future actions. One of the items which the Prime Minister and I are looking forward to with regard to the royal commission is the final report, due in a matter of weeks—a commission which was never previously called by those on the other side but was called and delivered by the Prime Minister in his first weeks in office—

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