Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Williams for the question. What I can provide is: in addition to those places, the Rudd government also allocated a record $51 million in capital grants—the largest single capital grant allocation by any Australian government. So what this government is working on is ensuring that we provide aged-care facilities, that we have 10,447 new aged-care places, worth an estimated $347 million in annual recurrent grants—