Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The need to provide additional in-home aged-care places is something that this government has acted on in every single update and budget statement since 2018-19. We have more than doubled the number. In fact, it's more than that. There were some 60,000 in-home aged-care places when we came to government, and we will hit 190,000 or thereabouts—just shy of that. That's what we've been doing year in, year out, to increase the number of in-home aged-care places. The reason we're doing that is that we know that the nature of aged care is changing in this country. That is why we commissioned the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, and we await their recommendations next year.

In the meantime, we have continued to add additional places: 10,000 in last year's MYEFO; 25,000, I think, in this year's budget. We'll be considering that again as we move towards the MYEFO statement at the end of this year. In-home aged care is an essential part of providing dignified care to Australians all around this country as they age. They want to stay in their homes. They want to stay with their families.

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