Constituency questions
Evelyn electorate
Bridget VALLENCE (Evelyn) (14:46): (550) For the Seville Primary School community – the students, families and teachers – my question is to the Minister for Education. When will you provide sufficient funding for major upgrades at Seville Primary School to fully replace the block A and block B buildings to deliver a modern and safe place to learn with new classrooms, a library, a wellness room, a kitchen and canteen, disability access, new toilets and a safe bushfire refuge? Seville Primary School’s infrastructure is no longer fit for purpose. The buildings are full of asbestos – a broken promise from the Labor government’s election pledge in 2014 to remove asbestos from all schools. This curtails the school’s ability to offer modern learning, as they cannot install TV monitors and other digital tools on the walls. The wellness room in block A has a big hole in the floor, and the ceiling in block B consistently leaks and Make-safe has failed to fix this. I pay tribute to principal Christopher Dossor, school council president Courtney O’Keefe and the staff, parents and students for their advocacy to ensure that Seville Primary School gets the new, modern buildings that they deserve.