Gippsland East electorate
Mr T BULL (Gippsland East) (12:50): (2041) My question today is to the Premier, and the information I seek is the detail around the bushfire recovery that is being undertaken by Grocon in East Gippsland. Around four weeks ago I received a briefing from Grocon that said there would be 25 work crews in the area at different properties by mid-March. We are now in mid-March, and one crew started on Friday. I subsequently had another briefing from Grocon about 10 days ago, and I was told there would be 21 to 22 crews working by the end of this month. The trouble is, when I talk to representatives from the government I get a different story: that there will only ever be nine or 10 crews working in the region. What the people of East Gippsland want to know is how many crews there will be, when they will be on their property to clean it up and the date on which property clean-ups will be finished. And I ask the Premier to provide this information to the people of East Gippsland.