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

One of the concerns that the government has is the provision of high-quality aged care across the country and particularly in regional Australia. Here we have a community in Victoria that was about to lose its aged-care facility. It had a number of other services attached to it. It had a doctor's surgery, a pharmacy, a community house. All of the services were attached to the provision of care at the aged-care facility. We were concerned about whether those things all had the capacity to continue to be provided in that community. We had a number of providers who were interested in taking over the facility. We extended the capacity of the administrator to continue the administration to see if we could find a new provider for the centre.