Senator COLBECK (Tasmania—Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians and Minister for Youth and Sport) (14:10): I shall say to Leading Age Services Australia, as I have done on the phone in conversation, exactly what I've just said to the chamber: we will work our way through this process in a methodical manner. We're not going to do what the Labor Party did when they were in government, creating a circumstance with pink bats which ended up unfortunately killing people; we're going to— Senator Wong: The point of order goes to direct relevance. This is a serious topic. You made some rulings yesterday in relation to Senator Ruston's answers. Senator Abetz: Oh, so pink batts isn't serious? Senator Wong: No, people dying whilst waiting for approved packages is pretty serious, and he ought to answer the question rather than play politics. Senator Abetz: And people died because of pink batts. Senator Wong: I'll take the interjection from Senator Abetz. Sixteen thousand Australians died waiting— The PRESIDENT: Interjections and responses to them are inappropriate—particularly, I might say, during points of order. On the ruling I made yesterday, I'm not going to interrupt a minister halfway through a sentence. The minister was asked how he responded to a series of claims. I was listening carefully to his answer. I believe he was being directly relevant and, while a glancing comment may be in order, I do consider that a tightly worded question, as was the case yesterday, did preclude discussion of opposition policy. I'm not willing to necessarily make that ruling now, because I don't believe the minister has gone there at this point. He was halfway through a sentence. Senator COLBECK: Thank you, Mr President. The government will do as it said when the royal commission was announced, when the draft report was released a couple of weeks ago and in our press conference yesterday. We said that we will methodically work through all of the issues that we need to deal with as part of this process. As I've said a number of times, we have increased the capacity of the home care sector from 60,000 places when we came government to 150,000 places this year, an investment of $2.7 billion since last year's budget.