Senate debates

Monday, 17 September 2018

Questions without Notice

Aged Care

2:37 pm

Photo of Nigel ScullionNigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

They say, 'What would happen under our government; we're doing these things and those things,' to make a direct comparative, I suppose, of what they will do or have done. In 2010-11, it was the Labor Party that ripped money out of residential aged care and failed to reinvest all of those dollars—so it was a $9 million cut. Of course, you can look at Budget Paper No. 2 from 2010-11. In the next year, that wasn't enough. They said, 'We decided to rip $200 million out of residential aged care so we're leaving those most vulnerable without the support that they need.' Again, you can look at Budget Paper No. 2 from 2011-12. Then we move on to 2012-13, where there was another cut of $135 million. Again, the source is Budget Paper No. 2 from 2012-13. Under Labor's Living Longer Living Better reforms, the ratio sets were inadequate and severely underestimated, so I don't really appreciate the nauseating lectures from the failures opposite. (Time expired)

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