Senate debates

Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Questions without Notice

Aged Care

2:04 pm

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

and within the regulatory process. My expectation as minister is that all providers comply with the quality standards. That is the expectation of the government, and I expect that it's an expectation of all of those who use residential aged care in this country. We all expect high-quality care to be provided by residential aged-care providers, and that's why we have the regulatory frameworks in place. That's why the quality commissioner has the responsibility for the oversight of those regulatory frameworks and of compliance with those frameworks: to ensure that providers conform with those standards.

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