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

We've acknowledged that there are issues in aged care, and if we didn't acknowledge there were issues in aged care we would not have called the royal commission. As I said, one of the very first actions of Prime Minister Morrison was to call the royal commission. Of course, even though we have called the royal commission, we've continued to implement reforms to the aged-care sector while the royal commission has continued. We have created the new Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, which didn't exist until the beginning of last year. We've put in place new Aged Care Quality Standards, which started on 1 July 2019. We've commenced the process of aged-care quality indicators and their public reporting. So we have continued to improve the aged-care sector. We will continue to do that, particularly off the back of the royal commission when it reports on 26 February next year.