Senate debates Bills
Aged Care Bill 2024, Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024; In Committee
Katy Gallagher ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service
11:12 am
The advice to government at the moment, certainly, is that the ICT investments of that money can accommodate the systems that are required to administer the new aged-care system. There are those grants that we talked about, which are a bit separate, but there are those in additional cost to that. I think this program is going to be tightly managed, including with assurance and all the rest of it, to make sure—these big ICT programs are inherently risky. I think all governments have experienced that with big IT spends. So it is going to be closely managed to make sure that it does the job it needs to do. But, certainly, the advice to government is that that was the funding that was required.
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