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

The government has not withheld support from the sector. The announcements that we made today were specifically related to assisting the sector manage their way through COVID-19. On the suggestion of the royal commission, and coming out of the report that was made by the royal commission in November last year, there were a number of additional resources supplied to the sector that the royal commission suggested. That included an additional 10,000 home care packages. It included some resources for medication management and to ensure that the use of chemical restraints was minimised. It included some funding to ensure that the numbers of young people going into residential aged care were minimised. So we have continued to put additional resources into the aged-care sector and, as the Prime Minister has said on a number of occasions, and as I've said, we will continue to do that at every opportunity.