Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

As I indicated to the Senate earlier, the government will in due course consider the report and the recommendations from the report. What we will be doing is taking steps, unlike the previous Labor government, to ensure that we have a sustainable health system into the future. The previous Labor government may have been prepared to be irresponsible when it comes to the spending of taxpayers dollars, and irresponsible when it comes to planning the future of the delivery of health services for people in this country. This government is not. We will take the hard decisions to ensure that we have a sustainable health system into the future.