House debates
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Questions without Notice
Aged Care
3:10 pm
Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) | Hansard source
over 82,000 surge positions have been made available. This year, we've had over 50 million units of PPE, which have been provided to our aged-care homes. In addition, that includes 13.9 million rapid antigen tests, which have been in place continuously—continuously—since August of last year and moving forwards. Beyond that, we've also been able to provide now nine million rapid antigen tests to over two million concessional cardholders since this program was begun in January. So all of these elements have come together.
More broadly though, they come against the basis of the largest additional investment in aged care in Australian history—$17.7 billion at last year's budget in response to the royal commission. It's not just the largest investment in aged care in Australian history but the largest response to any royal commission at any time in Australian history, a commission which this Prime Minister called when no others previously had ever done such a thing. And, in particular, amongst that—
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