Santo Santoro (Queensland, Liberal Party, Minister for Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

I am answering the question on fire safety by Senator McLucas and indicating that when this government came to power we had to, including up until last year, provide $513 million to fix up the mess that has been left behind by the previous Labor government and their state counterparts. I can inform Senator McLucas that, as opposed to her futile efforts, my website is going to be updated regularly, as you would want it. Ask me another question after it is updated this coming Friday. I can inform Senator McLucas that as of today 2,354 residential aged care homes—which constitutes 80 per cent; make a note of it—have demonstrated that they meet the 1999 standard, which is more significant than the 1997 standard and more significant than any other standards that your counterparts, when they were on these benches, had in place.

Since the end of December, again referring to Senator McLucas’s question, which I was not expecting, the department has been processing the large amount of information that has been received from providers, the bulk of which have building works in progress.