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

I completely disagree with that question. It's just wrong. We are adding medicines to the PBS all the time. In every budget, the most significant investments are going in to listing new medications. There is a process where it comes from the approval committee to be listed. We have a fund that we use to fund those arrangements. There is pressure on it, as there is in every area of government, because there are new medications coming all the time that people would like listed. They need to go through the process that was in operation when you were in government. It is being managed properly. Not only are we listing new medicines; we've made medicines cheaper. Do you remember who voted against that? On 60-day prescriptions they said the sky would fall in. People are saving a lot of money. We've put the freeze on scripts, in this budget, and we've lowered the price of scripts overall. We're doing everything we can to support people with medicines.