Mr TAYLOR (Bayswater) (11:42): (735) My constituency question is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. I rise to ask the minister: what benefit does the North East Link bring to the Bayswater electorate and the eastern suburbs more broadly? It is the missing link that we know Victoria has needed for decades. The ring-road ending at the Greensborough Highway just does not cut it anymore—it never has. We have needed this link for as long as there has been a Melway. On day one after the election last November I was very happy to see the tender for Victoria’s biggest roads project go out to market. When we said we would get on with it, we really meant it, and of course the surplus budget just handed down saw the North East Link fully funded: $15.8 billion. I would be very interested to know detail as to the kinds of benefits this project will bring not only once completed but also during its construction. There will no doubt be many thousands of good construction jobs created thanks to this project, and I would like to know just how many will be created as a result. I thank the minister for her commitment to getting the big projects underway to ensure that Victoria is kept moving, and I would like to thank her for her consideration of my question.