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

Given you seem to know what the minister was doing in relation to your answers to Senator Canavan on this issue with Mount Morgan, I would probably draw to your attention that the reason stated by Mount Morgan was the onerous administrative requirements for them to report for every 30 minutes that they are unable to have a registered nurse on site, that they have to report to the agency or to the department was the reason why Mount Morgan decided they were forced into a situation to have to close because they just did not have the resources or capacity to be able to do that. I acknowledge the concerns raised by Senator Canavan that are being replicated around Australia at the moment for the heavy-handed and punitive approach that this government is taking to supporting aged care. To more general questions, Minister: When will the office of the inspector-general be permanently established?