Senator DI NATALE (Victoria) (15:44): I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) Medicare has completed audits of 89 dentists who accessed the Chronic Disease Dental Scheme, (ii) a further 540 audits are still underway, (iii) of the completed audits, only 12 were found to be for the non-provision of claimed services, (iv) of the remaining audits found to be non-compliant, non-compliance is in most cases of a technical and administrative nature, whereby the practitioner failed to provide a written quote to the patient or a treatment summary to the referring doctor in a timely fashion, and (v) claims for full repayment of services delivered under Medicare to the community may result in undue hardship to dental practitioners who acted in good faith; and (b) calls on the Government to waive its right to the repayment of debts incurred by dental practitioners as a result of a Medicare audit where: (i) all services claimed were rendered properly and in good faith to eligible patients, and (ii) the nature of the non-compliance was purely administrative in nature.