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

Thank you, Senator Small. I can. We have committed $90 million to support a viability fund to assist those facilities which are facing financial challenges, particularly as the sector begins to restructure to respond to change and the choice of people to live at home for longer; $91.8 million to grow the skilled and professional aged-care workforce, recruiting up to 18,000 personal care workers into both home care and residential care; and $30.1 million to strengthen the governance of aged-care providers and legislated governance obligations across the entire sector.

This will be a significant reform for this country and for the aged-care sector. As I've said a number of times, it is this government's determination to ensure that those reforms are undertaken, and, of course, as the Prime Minister and I have said, we will respond more fully to the recommendations of the royal commission in the budget.