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

Right now, we've got 800,000 people on Commonwealth Home Support Program packages. I'm assuming that's a snapshot in time. Maybe there will be fewer by 2027 because some of these people might be coming into Support at Home et cetera. The minister, in her announcement in relation to the budget and this particular reform package, said that there would be 300,000 new home-care packages released over the next ten years. That would effectively be an additional 30,000 a year over ten years. Yet we've got 800,000 people currently, as we sit here, who are receiving aged-care supports through the Commonwealth Home Support Program. I'm interested to understand what the basis was behind the determination to release 300,000 packages over 10 years. I should say that's 30,000 packages a year. We've currently got—