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

The specific I will take on notice. What I can tell senators is the fact that, far from cutting funding to hospitals, we are actually increasing it. As I said yesterday—perhaps those opposite were not listening—we are actually going to increase hospital funding by nine per cent in 2014-15, by nine per cent the year after that, by nine per cent the year after that, by six per cent the year after that. There is $70 billion going into hospitals over the forward estimates, going from $14 billion to $18.9 billion. So, far from cutting funding to hospitals, we are increasing it.