Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Tyrrell for the question. I'll certainly relay that to the Minister for Aged Care. As you know, we have other measures underway to improve the quality of aged care, including the new star ratings for residential aged care to provide older people and their families with transparency on quality. We've got the extension of the Serious Incident Response Scheme to home care, and a new code of conduct for approved providers, aged-care workers and governing persons from 1 December. I'm not saying this is easy and will fix some of the quality issues overnight; it won't. But these are important reforms that send the very strong message that Australians expect quality aged care to be provided to elderly Australians, that the government has a role in supporting that. We will be doing that with our investments in the aged-care workforce and our investments in 24/7 nursing care. And we'll work with providers to continue to improve it.