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

I'm not sure that officials will have that information here, as it's not directly relevant. Even though it's related, it's not information that we would necessarily have brought to support debate on this bill. But, in the interests of moving quickly—or as quickly as we can—I will see if there is anything we can provide to assist you.

I will say that, across the Commonwealth Home Support Program and home-care packages, at the moment there are around 1.1 million places, and, prior to the decision to fund Support at Home, there was minimal growth funded over the next 10 years. That's obviously changed with the 300,000 over the next 10 years. Under Support at Home, places will grow to around 1.4 million by 2035. Demand projections indicate that most of this growth will be supporting home-care-level clients, rather than community CHSP. I think the bill also puts in place arrangements that, by 2027, there would be a maximum of a three-month wait for care. So that's the metric that we are working towards: essentially, the maximum wait for access to care would be three months under this arrangement.