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

I just have a couple of other questions. First of all, Minister, you alluded to the fact that you might provide the chamber with some data on the number of spot checks that have been held in July, August and September. I just want to confirm how that might occur—whether I have to wait until estimates or whether that will occur in a shorter time frame. We probably will conclude this bill before dinner, but if we were to go over the dinner break it might be handy if we could have that information today. As I said, at the rate that we were going, on the numbers that you have provided to the chamber to date, we are looking at around 140 a month, which will not get us to 3,000 by the end of June. So I am very interested in receiving data on the number of spot checks that have been conducted, particularly in July, August and September this year.

You are saying, Minister, that the agency cannot assess a facility against all 44 expected outcomes. Now the community know that. That is at least something we have gained today—that we are going to, as I said in my speech on the second reading, kick the tyres rather than do a full assessment of the operation of the facility. My specific question is: how do the agency ascertain which of those 44 outcomes they are going to assess the facility against? Will they be, as ACSA said in their report, issues that have received some attention in their most recent audit? How will the agency make a decision on which expected outcomes will be assessed?