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

Has the department, the minister or the government consulted with aged-care providers to get some sort of idea about the cost? Bearing in mind, and I take your point very clearly, that there is a huge range of different sizes and shapes and types of providers out there, I'm not expecting you to say, 'It's going to cost X for every provider.' Has the government consulted more broadly with providers to try to get an understanding of the scope of the quantum of the cost? I'm certainly not asking you to give me a cost per provider.