Mr. Maurice Deverell:

If the Senator is talking to the Department, there is another issue regarding old people going to nursing homes. They have to be dead for this Bill to work. The problem is that sometimes old people go to nursing homes who do not think they are going to stay in the nursing home. They actually live with the hope that they will get back to their own house and then might want to rent it out. Then they find that, financially, the fair deal worked to their favour or did not, or they might just be broke and want money to do their hair, but they cannot sell the house without offering it forward. That is a pity, because old people do not just leave nursing homes when they are dead. Although they are in the nursing home, are very frail and are months away from it, the Bill should cover this in some way so that they are allowed to get vacant possession. One can do without it for probate.