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

The specific measures the government has undertaken in response to the royal commission with over $17 billion of funding, as part of the Respect, Care and Dignity national plan, include the growing of a skilled and high-quality workforce to care for senior Australians and payments to registered nurses of $216 million over seven years. In addition to that, there is $3.9 billion for mandatory care time standards, which is the payment, for the average of 200 minutes per day, of registered nursing staff. In addition to that, we have engaged with the Fair Work Commission. I would note, however, that when the Leader of the Opposition was asked about the very question which was put to the Prime Minister, his response was: 'It's up to the Fair Work Commission to determine what they want to do.' Utter hypocrisy!

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