Eric Hutchinson (Lyons, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The ACAR funding recipients for aged-care facilities around Australia were announced today. I want to congratulate a number of facilities in my electorate of Lyons in Tasmania. Corumbene, at New Norfolk in the south of Tasmania, received a little over $1 million for capital upgrades for their aged-care facility as well as a number of residential care packages. In the north of Tasmania, in the town of Sheffield, the Tandara aged-care facility, an outstanding facility, received a capital grant of just under $1 million to upgrade that facility to allow more people to spend their final years there. They also received some residential care packages. And the fine facility of Toosey, in the town of Longford in the Northern Midlands in my electorate, received home care packages totalling about $130,000. All in all, over $3 million will go to supporting aged-care facilities around my electorate of Lyons.