Thursday, 6 February 2025

 Lily D’AMBROSIO (Mill Park – Minister for Climate Action, Minister for Energy and Resources, Minister for the State Electricity Commission) (10:15): I am pleased to highlight some of the very good things that have happened over the summer period in my electorate. Emergency services are so critical to all of our lives, and we know that just thinking about the bushfires that are underway right now. It is why I was so pleased to have been able to open a modern, multimillion-dollar ambulance station in Epping, alongside the Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure Delivery, on 20 December. I really do want to acknowledge and thank the Minister for Health, who is at the table, for making sure that these types of services are being delivered across our communities. This is a brand new two-storey station that features a five-bay ambulance garage, training facilities, six rest-and-recline areas and enhanced security and parking, which means increased capacity to respond to more call-outs in our growing northern suburbs.

We have also had the first stage of construction of the Northern Hospital redevelopment project. The first stage includes the new specialist outpatient clinic. We are going to see more than 200 treatment spaces, an expansion of the inpatient unit and many other great facilities, including the children’s emergency department, being built.