Wendy Askew (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator McAllister. Margaret and her husband, Tony, applied for home-care support in January last year. They desperately needed assistance. Tony suffered from Parkinson's and several cancer diagnoses, but more than 12 months later Tony still had no access to care. Tony was taken to hospital on 4 May this year and tragically passed away a few days later. During that week he spent in hospital, in his final days, Margaret was advised that his home-care package had finally been allocated. It was, frankly, too little too late. Minister, will you apologise to Margaret and the thousands of other people who have lost loved ones while waiting for the care they have been assessed as needing?