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

There are only a very small number that don't; the vast majority do. We strongly support the idea that individuals requiring residential aged care should be provided that care regardless of their income or assets. I think we're in furious agreement here; the disagreement is over the mechanism used to provide that extra support through the funding. Your position is: keep it the way it is now, with a 20 per cent average per region. We're saying we want to allocate those places to individuals and we want to incentivise, and the aged-care industry at the moment clearly indicates that, with the receipt of those additional payments, by far the vast majority are providing supported resident placement and getting the financial incentive to allow that to occur.