Senate debates

Monday, 24 August 2020

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety

2:55 pm

Photo of Catryna BilykCatryna Bilyk (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

A supplementary question: counsel assisting the aged-care royal commission said that: 'neither the Commonwealth Department of Health nor the aged-care regulator developed a COVID-19 plan specifically for the aged-care sector.' How many of the 335 aged-care residents who have died from COVID-19 would be alive if the minister had planned to protect them?

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