Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

r RUSTON (—) (): The opposition will be supporting this amendment as well because we do believe that it is necessary, for transparency, that there are plans in these transition sites. The opposition obviously remains extremely concerned about the removal of this card and the so far inadequate demonstration of the necessary supports that are being put in place and the fact that the minister tonight has either not been able to or has refused to answer questions with any great clarity as to the kinds of supports that will be in place and when they'll be in place in these particular sites.

We think it is absolutely essential that the amendment moved by Senator Rice be put in place, and we also believe that the costs need to be tabled in this place. We would also request that, if the government is prepared to support this particular amendment, they be a little more transparent about the costs of the measures that are contained in this bill, because so far all we've heard tonight is that apparently it's commercial in confidence and is not able to be made available. The opposition will be supporting these amendments because we believe it's in the best interests of those people that are affected by this piece of legislation.