Senate debates

Thursday, 21 November 2024

Bills

Aged Care Bill 2024; In Committee

5:51 pm

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

I answered all of these questions at about 10 past nine this morning. But, to run through that quickly, there are grants of $10,000 that will be targeted at Support at Home providers. The program has a maximum cost of $10 million. It is expected that the Support at Home providers are the ones that will have the most significant change requiring any IT program changes. The guidelines are being finalised for that. It's imminent, so there would be advice coming out, I think, in the next few weeks or so on the grants of $10,000. Yes, they've only been announced this week, so the grant guidelines will have to be done. Obviously, once we've finished with this bill, further advice and information is going out to providers. There's the transition taskforce that's been established, and that will have its first meeting next Thursday. I have no doubt the issues around preparedness, capability, functionality and all of those matters will be considered by the transition taskforce.

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