Sam Rae (Hawke, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Aged Care and Seniors) Share this | Hansard source

There is an established process for verifying and releasing data as it pertains to the national priority system waitlist. At the end of March, around 87,000 people were on the national priority system waitlist, and we're releasing more than 2,000 home-care packages every week up to this point to deal with that question. There is, as I said, a process of verification because the government does not want to release incorrect information when it comes to the national priority system. It's a longstanding process that is the same as was managed under the previous government, and I again refer the Leader of the Opposition to the numbers that I have given repeatedly throughout this.

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