Eastern Victoria Region
Ms BURNETT-WAKE (Eastern Victoria) (12:21): (1736) My constituency question is for the Minister for Education in the other place. A parent from Upwey South Primary School has raised, through me, that the grades 1 to 4 building has no heating. The parents have been informed that the gas has been turned off to the building due to a gas leak at the school. Furthermore, they have been told that the school does not have sufficient funds to have the necessary repairs done to rectify the gas leak. It is not even winter yet and the children are cold. The gas leak needs to be fixed as an urgent priority so that heating can be turned back on, because any leak is a health and safety issue that also must be fixed. After two years of homeschooling this is not what the children need. A cold, miserable learning environment will only add to any disengagement they have with learning already. Minister, will you urgently fund the necessary repairs to the Upwey South Primary School so students can learn in a warm and safe environment?