Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

Clearly, as I've already said a number of times, the capacity constraints in the system for home care packages need to be addressed. That's why the government, on receiving the interim report from the royal commission—particularly the instruction from the royal commission that we needed to address waiting lists for home care packages—indicated that we would make further investments in that space. We want people to be able to access the care that they need when they need it. That's our objective. That's the whole purpose of why we're undertaking this process.