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

to look at home care and residential care, and to ask for recommendations. My expectation is there will be recommendations and, if there are, we will act; and, if there aren't recommendations in this area, we will also be acting. So, either way, we will act. But we want to see, understandably, what that royal commission report recommends and take those recommendations forward either on the basis of the report or, if not that, on any other basis.

The other point that I would make is that we have increased the number of Home Care Packages from 60,000 to over 195,000. There were 60,000 in 2012-13. The member for Hindmarsh will remember that figure because that's what it was under him as minister. It's more than triple that now. The relevant population has increased by 28 per cent, but the number of packages has more than tripled in that time. That's giving more choice and better care to a higher number of people and a higher proportion of that population than has ever been the case before.

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