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

My question is to the Prime Minister. Today the aged-care royal commission released a statement that nine out of 10 aged-care facilities in Australia are failing to achieve the highest quality of care. Why are nine out of every 10 aged-care facilities failing to deliver the appropriate care that older Australians deserve?

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

The challenges we face in aged care are understood, they are known, and that is why the government continue to act to support our aged-care sector. That is why we continue to provide more than $1 billion in extra funding every year to attend to all of the issues that are necessary. Understanding the system and its great needs—and those needs are increasing—is the reason I initiated the royal commission that the member opposite refers to. That is why, when they do their work and they provide us with their recommendations, we will be in a position to respond further, in addition to the more than $3 billion already provided in additional supports right across the board, across all of these facilities, whether it is the increase in in-home aged-care places, whether it is dealing with chemical restraints or whether it is dealing with the standards that it is necessary to uphold that the member refers to. It is a difficult sector in which to achieve the outcomes we would all desire, and we will continue to double and redouble our efforts each and every day to ensure that we treat older Australians with dignity and respect.