Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

It was remiss of me not to refer to the aged care sector and their concerns, but I note that with the aged care sector it is complicated by the regulatory structure there and by the fact that it receives government funding. Could the minister indicate whether the Deputy Prime Minister’s office has had representations from the aged care sector on their particular set of circumstances, which I think are complicated by virtue of their regulatory structure and by the level of government funding which many would say has kept wages down for nurses? I sympathise with their concerns about that.