Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

Well, you haven't answered the question, Minister, and I don't know why you're not prepared to actually be honest and transparent with the Senate and the people of Australia. There have been no new home-care packages released by this government this financial year. That is the sum total of none. You refer to the reallocation of existing packages. These are packages that become available when older Australians on a package either go into residential care or they die. These are the only packages that are currently being released by the government.

Minister Rae last week said that there were 2,700 packages on average per week being released. Yesterday or maybe Monday, the minister said that the number of packages being released was 2,000 packages a week on average. Could you please confirm what is the average number of packages released per week? Is it 2,000 or is it 2,700? If it is 2,000, what's happened to the other 700?