Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Northern Victoria Region

Ms LOVELL (Northern Victoria) (12:17): (1504) My question is for the Minister for Health and concerns stage 2 of the redevelopment of Goulburn Valley Health. I have continuously raised the importance of completing the full redevelopment of GV Health and also sought funding commitments from the Labor government, who continue to sit on their hands on this issue. When the minister visited GV Health in January this year he spruiked the government’s funding of $2 million for planning of stage 2 of the redevelopment. This funding was actually announced in May 2019 as part of the 2019–20 state budget. Two and a half years later we still have no idea of the progression of stage 2, and the Goulburn Valley Health community deserve an explanation from the minister on the status of this badly needed infrastructure project. Will the minister provide an immediate update on the status of stage 2 of the Goulburn Valley Health redevelopment and give an undertaking to publicly release the GV Health master plan?