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

These homes were referred to the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency, as Senator McLucas would expect us to do, for monitoring and assessment against accreditation standards. All 10 homes have building works in progress and have been placed on timetables for improvement by the agency pending completion of the schedule. That is what I was referring to yesterday.

With regard to the other aspects of Senator McLucas’s question, including fire safety standards, Senator McLucas and others on the other side of this place would know that approved providers of the Australian government funded aged care homes are required to ensure their homes meet the relevant state, territory and local government fire safety standards. In 1997, in addition to those standards, the government introduced building certification—