Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senator Hinch, move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that the aged care homeless supplement was introduced to assist specialist homeless aged care providers to remain financially viable in order to enable them to continue to provide aged care services to older Australians with a history of, or at risk of, homelessness;

(b) acknowledges that:

  (i) unlike mainstream providers, specialist homeless aged care providers have a reduced ability to recover costs from residents, as they do not have the capacity to pay, and

  (ii) the financial viability of specialist homeless aged care services is again at risk as the funding gap between mainstream providers and these specialist providers has once again grown; and

(c) calls on the Government to urgently review the funding situation of these specialist homeless aged care providers and address the funding gap.