Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025

Senator RUSTON (South Australia—Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (11:06): I'm just interested to understand why the advice that you're receiving is to not provide me with updated data? In just about every other situation when I've asked for this data, I've been provided that data within the following month. Therefore, it would be reasonable to expect that you would be able to provide information as to, at least, what the priority waiting list was on 31 July 2025.

You gave me an answer from 31 March 2025. But, on the public record, the number is 108,924 on 31 July 2025. I'm keen to understand why you refused to provide me with that information in the previous answer.