Ms Louise Lennon:

Each Department needs to be involved and it needs to be cross-departmental. They need to look at how their policies would impact. In healthcare, for example, the lack of access to GPs is a real problem, given the retirement of GPs in rural areas. Even when GPs reach the age of 66, it has an impact because they may no longer see medical card patients. There is an impact on a rural community with no GP or where a GP can only see private patients. There is the impact of no public transport as I indicated in my opening statement and the accommodation centre not having access to transport. It goes back to Senator Flaherty's comment that extending it by ten minutes could solve that issue. People have been excluded from society and excluded from reaching employment, education and hospital appointments. Each Department should be required to look at what the impacts are.