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

I'll have to come back to you on any particular cycle of evaluation of the scheme, but, from my perspective, a regular cycle of doing that actually informs continuous improvement. I understand where you're coming from and I agree with the concept that you're discussing.

We are currently doing some additional scoping work on the Serious Incident Response Scheme. A number of colleagues have acknowledged the fact that it doesn't include home care. We're doing the scoping work for home care right now, so that answers the issue that has been raised in relation to home care. But we believe that it was important to get the scheme up, running and operating, particularly in residential care. The bringing forward of the commencement of the scheme was part of our response to the royal commission's COVID report, so we're clearly responding in that sense, but it is something that we will need to continue to monitor, and my view would be that that should form part of our reform process that we'll embark on off the back of the royal commission.