Senate debates

Thursday, 27 August 2020

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Aged Care

2:40 pm

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

The press release that Senator Polley refers to relates to our provision of PPE and surge workforce into residential aged-care facilities that have had a COVID-19 outbreak. That's exactly what we did. So every aged-care facility that has had a COVID-19 outbreak has had PPE provided to it. In fact, if you go back to that point in time you will note that there was a global shortage of PPE. This government has built a significant stockpile of PPE to provide—

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