Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

My statements always have been in the context of the Tune review recommendations and the fact that the royal commission said that this was an urgent reform. I can very much understand the royal commission's statement, given the reporting of my comments versus what I actually said, that I was intending to privatise ACAT services. I have never ever said that. So I can actually understand the royal commission responding to a reporting of my comments that wasn't correct. I issued a statement immediately I saw the comments of the royal commission, acknowledging the primacy of the royal commission. I acknowledged the royal commission, the work that it was doing and the government's willingness to engage closely with the royal commission on these reforms.