Tuesday, 3 March 2026

 Danny O’BRIEN (Gippsland South) (14:34): (1530) My question is to the Minister for Housing, and I ask: how many public housing homes in the Wellington, South Gippsland and Latrobe municipalities are currently vacant but unavailable for tenants due to the need for repairs, maintenance or other works? This is a question I am asking because we are repeatedly getting concerns from constituents in my electorate of Gippsland South as to vacant homes in the public housing estate that are unavailable, that have been boarded up and that are not being maintained. It is at the stage where people who are on the housing waiting list are actually going around looking at the homes and saying, ‘Why can’t I have that one? Why can’t I have that one?’ If the minister also advise how many public housing homes there are in these LGAs so that we can see, as a percentage, how many are currently off line during a housing crisis. I am not asking two questions; I am simply asking for the information on how many, as a percentage, are actually off line, so that Victorians and Gippsland South residents know where our houses are.