Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

The bill before us doesn't deal with urgent care clinics at all. I can inform Senator Hanson that the government's commitments were to create urgent care clinics which would have extended hours. It wasn't a commitment in relation to 24/7 opening. I can tell you that, in those places where urgent care clinics have been opened, we see community members very receptive. But there are limits, I think—there are other times in the program where you can ask the government questions about the operation of urgent care clinics, and I would suggest that this bill is considerably narrower than that and really doesn't extend to that issue.