599Annual report on the operation of the Act

599  Annual report on the operation of the Act

 (1) The System Governor must give the Minister, for presentation to each House of the Parliament, a report on the performance of the System Governor’s functions during each financial year.

 (2) Without limiting subsection (1), the report must include information about the following matters:

 (a) the extent of unmet demand for funded aged care services;

 (aa) the extent of funded aged care services accessed by individuals from different locations and with different backgrounds and life experience;

 (b) the duration of waiting periods for funded aged care services;

 (c) the number of registered providers entering and exiting the market for the delivery of funded aged care services;

 (d) the financial viability of registered providers in that market;

 (e) usage of the bond guarantee scheme;

 (f) the amounts of contributions paid;

 (g) the amounts of those contributions paid as refundable deposits;

 (h) the extent of building, upgrading and refurbishment of residential care homes.

Note: For reporting and planning by the Commissioner, see Division 5 of Part 3 of Chapter 5.