Thursday, 4 June 2026


Constituency questions

Gippsland East electorate


Tim BULL

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Gippsland East electorate

 Tim BULL (Gippsland East) (14:37): (1670) My constituency question is to the Minister for Education, and the information that I am seeking is an explanation as to why the cost of building school toilet blocks has blown out.

The SPEAKER: ‘What is the cost?’ might be your question.

Tim BULL: Exactly, Speaker, and why I ask that question is in 2020 we had Metung Primary School have a complete demolition and rebuild of its toilet block costing $146,000 and more recently, we had Tambo Upper Primary School and Lakes Entrance Primary School having simple refurbishments costing half a million dollars – the cost of a new four bedroom home. So I am asking the minister to please explain why we are having that enormous cost increase. That is the information I am seeking.