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

I covered those off in my last answer. Obviously, we did not come with officials that, essentially, would be required at estimates, and I'm not sure this was interrogated at estimates, which is probably the place where we would have officials available. We've provided you with the budget. We've provided you with the names of the programs that are being continued to be sustained. It is true: there wasn't enough investment in IT systems across the board under the previous government. We're having to deal with a lot of that now. Legacy systems are a problem, which is why, when I first got the bill for this one—which was at $1.2 billion; it was an extraordinary amount of money—it was interrogated to see exactly what it could do. I wish the amount was smaller than it is, but this is what I am advised is necessary to keep systems ongoing and create the new IT framework that supports the implementation of the Aged Care Act.