Senate debates

Thursday, 4 February 2021

Bills

Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Serious Incident Response Scheme and Other Measures) Bill 2020; In Committee

1:33 pm

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

You're right, Senator; it is different, but there also needs to be some balance in the amount of work that goes into the administration of each of the various schemes, and that's why we've made the decisions that we have. All of the falls will be reported. The provider will be required to do an assessment as a part of that, as I've indicated to you, but that's the assessment that's being done through the scoping study, and particularly through the learnings that we've had by assessing other schemes, including the one that operates through the NDIS.

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