Thursday, 18 March 2021

Responses

Mr CARROLL (Niddrie—Minister for Public Transport, Minister for Roads and Road Safety) (17:26): I will first begin by acknowledging the member for Croydon’s matter for the Minister for Training and Skills. He has had to leave, but it does concern the expansion of Ringwood Training, which currently has 542 students and is in urgent need of an expansion. He made the case very strongly. That will be passed on to the minister in the other place.

The member for Mount Waverley, who is very passionate about this subject matter, has a matter for the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Gaming and Liquor Regulation concerning young children, video gaming and their exposure to harm, particularly when it comes to online gaming and eSports. I will ensure that his matter is passed on to the minister as appropriate.

The member for Ovens Valley has also had to leave but did have a matter on behalf of a local family in his electorate concerning essentially their ambulance services membership and the charging of a ride for a family member, seeking if that matter could be looked at.

The member for Broadmeadows had a very contemporary matter for the Minister for Mental Health concerning the outcomes of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System and the statewide rollout of services and what it means for his electorate and his community.

The member for Sandringham had an important matter for me in relation to road safety. I thank the member for Sandringham for his advocacy on this matter, particularly for young people and what it means to install the traffic lights and pedestrian crossing at Childers Street and Warrigal Road in his community. I thank the City of Kingston for their advocacy and the member for the correspondence he has provided to me on behalf of local school principals. I should say we are at 50 lives lost so far this year. That is 50 lives that will not be around for Christmas, 50 lives too many. Every death is preventable when it comes to road safety, and as a matter of urgency I will get back to the member for Sandringham on that matter.

Can I also thank the member for Northcote for her matter for the Minister for Employment. We had the benefit of the member for Northcote’s social enterprises and community at the This Girl Can launch this morning. It is a very important matter for the jobs minister concerning the transition of the member’s economy locally and what it will mean with the ceasing of JobKeeper going forward as well.

The member for Brighton had a matter for the Premier concerning communications and more broadly the rollout of the vaccine, and that important advocacy will also be passed on to the Premier.

The member for St Albans—very close to her heart—had a matter for the Minister for Health concerning the Sunshine private hospital and that broader precinct for Melbourne’s west and particularly the growing Melbourne west.

The member for Euroa had a matter for the Minister for Education concerning the Greater Shepparton Secondary College, particularly the two campuses, Mooroopna and Wanganui, and the shortage of teachers. I will ensure that the education minister gets that as a matter of priority.

Can I finally thank also the member for Bayswater for his matter for the Minister for Veterans in the other place asking him to please come out and visit the ex-service organisations he has in and around Boronia—particularly, as he outlined, the op shop and the social enterprise—that we know are very important. I think those are all the matters that have been raised for ministers this evening.

The SPEAKER: The house now stands adjourned.

House adjourned 5.30 pm until Tuesday, 4 May.