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Speaker 1: Home care workers are getting the help to pay for

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Speaker 1: fuel that they've been asking for. The governments announced a

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Speaker 1: temporary increase in their mileage rates of thirty percent. Home

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Speaker 1: Care and Health Association Chief executive Lisa Foster joins us, Now, high,

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Speaker 1: Lisa you doing, I'm very well, thank you. Do we

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Speaker 1: know how long temporary is?

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Speaker 2: We dawned for sure. We've got some idea that it's

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Speaker 2: a there's a three month review and then there's some

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Speaker 2: sort of caveats around certain criteria that have to be met.

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Speaker 2: So it's three dollar red for lasting for more than

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Speaker 2: I think it's four weeks or a year, one year.

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Speaker 2: So at the moment that's still up in the air.

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Speaker 2: We're still trying to clarify some of those sort of logistics.

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Speaker 1: Will the increase which has gone from it's gone from

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Speaker 1: sixty three and a half cents to eighty two and

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Speaker 1: a half cents? Okay? Will that cover the bills?

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Speaker 2: It's certainly the right move forward for us, and it

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Speaker 2: was what we were calling for. We were getting increasingly

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Speaker 2: stressed and worried from the Kafena, from the workforce, also

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Speaker 2: from our members and employers just around the challenge for Easter.

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Speaker 2: When people need care in their home, you know, urgent essential,

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Speaker 2: critical care, and we basically may not be able to

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Speaker 2: deliver that. So this is a fantastic outcome in that sense. However,

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Speaker 2: to put it into context, you know, it's twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 2: So twelve years ago there was IBTE, which is in

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Speaker 2: between travel framework, and that was really the rates that

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Speaker 2: were set in the past with the union and the

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Speaker 2: employers and the government. But twelve years later was still

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Speaker 2: in a position where the same rate that was set

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Speaker 2: in legislation, which was fifty cent, is still the same.

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Speaker 2: We had a couple of reviews that took it to

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Speaker 2: sixty three point five percentage wise, that's like a twenty

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Speaker 2: seven percent increase versus ird sixty three percent increase. So

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Speaker 2: we're just always playing catch up, and I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: we were hoping for something that we can have a

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Speaker 2: mechanism a review that will be more realistic, sustainable solution

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Speaker 2: long term.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Lisa, best of luck with that and

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Speaker 1: thanks for your time at Lisa Foster, home Care and

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Speaker 1: Health Association Chief Executive. For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive,

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