Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

It's obviously one that we will be watching closely through estimates. Regarding aged-care packages, the 2020-21 budget allocated 20 per cent of the new packages to level 1. Why is the government continuing to announce level 1 home-care packages, and why has recent funding been done on a basis of quarter-quarter-quarter to the various packages? Why are you continuing to do that, given that people assessed as needing level 1 packages make up about three per cent of those that are currently waiting for a package?

Why is that occurring, rather than putting more resources into, particularly, level 3 and level 4? I acknowledge that some more have gone in, but it's clearly not enough to meet demand.