Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

A very good report. A significant proportion of the 31 recommendations refer to an all-encompassing review of the residential and aged-care sector to be conducted by the Department of Health and Ageing in conjunction with a task force to be established by a newly formed national aged-care forum. I note that there were no dissenting comments to this report and the committee unanimously supported these recommendations. However, the report did not stipulate the preferred time line for this all-encompassing review. My questions to the minister are: when will the government provide its response to the recommendations made by the finance and public administration committee inquiry; does the government support the recommendations of the inquiry; and, if so, what is the proposed date for the establishment of a national aged-care forum and subsequent task force to conduct this all-encompassing and urgent review?