Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Aged Care, Disabilities and Carers) Share this | Hansard source

I ask a supplementary question, Mr President. Minister, how are aged care providers supposed to plan ahead and manage their operations if they do not know what their funding will be in two months time? Is it not a fact that the budget papers this year have allocated significantly less additional funding for aged care subsidies for 2006-07 than was allocated last year? Is this because the budget papers do not include the additional funding flowing from indexation? Minister, is there indexation and has it been applied?