Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

Those opposite did worse than nothing. In 2012, we set up a rolling process of reforms that I agreed with Mr Dutton, which would get this sector ready for the ageing of the baby boomer generation—a rolling series of reforms that was derailed in the middle of the last decade. I wonder who the minister was when that was all derailed. I wonder who the minister was who failed to deliver the mid-decade reform that was set out in that 2012 piece of legislation that I agreed with Mr Dutton. I wonder who the minister was who, in her entire tenure, did not deliver a single additional home-care package—a big fat doughnut. I wonder who the minister was who cut aged-care funding to the residential sector not once but twice in her relatively short tenure as aged-care minister—$1.2 billion in the 2016 budget and half a billion dollars in the 2015 MYEFO. I wonder who that was! I have appreciated the dialogue we had with Senator Ruston last year and to deliver the deal that will get this legislation through this week. (Time expired)

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