Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

I should also remind colleagues that one of our election commitments which we are delivering in full is $200 million for dementia research. It also bears repeating that the severe dementia behaviours supplement was not base funding for aged-care providers who are supporting people with dementia. It was intended for a very specific and narrow cohort—people with severe behaviours in relation to dementia.

I should also indicate that in the budget we increased the base subsidy to aged-care providers by 2.4 per cent. Indeed, we repurposed $1.1 billion about which the previous government said to aged-care providers, 'You can have this only if you enter a union enterprise agreement.' We thought that was not fair, so we said to aged-care providers—