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

The advice to government at the moment, certainly, is that the ICT investments of that money can accommodate the systems that are required to administer the new aged-care system. There are those grants that we talked about, which are a bit separate, but there are those in additional cost to that. I think this program is going to be tightly managed, including with assurance and all the rest of it, to make sure—these big ICT programs are inherently risky. I think all governments have experienced that with big IT spends. So it is going to be closely managed to make sure that it does the job it needs to do. But, certainly, the advice to government is that that was the funding that was required.