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

So, effectively, what this change does—and I understand from your previous explanation that there was a legal need for this to occur—is that we have a situation where a minister or a government, on a state run facility, has a mechanism, through this exclusion that's contained in these two amendments, to remove themselves from the liability in relation to the operation of an aged-care home, and yet, at the very same time, all of those responsibilities and liabilities can actually be put on a voluntary board member of a home, and somehow the minister has, through this mechanism, been exempted from this?