Eastern Victoria Region
Ms BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:26): (1790) My question is for the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change. In 2018 the Andrews government came to the Latrobe Valley promising Solar Victoria the Morwell GovHub would create 50 new local jobs. At the time the advert said, ‘Flexibility may be negotiated for a base location of Melbourne by the successful applicant’, and then said, ‘Location: Melbourne or Morwell’—so Melbourne or Morwell. At the time, this was unacceptable. At the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee last week, Minister, you said that Solar Victoria now has established 73 jobs. Thirteen of them are at the executive level—13 executives. Solar Victoria has been struggling to meet its performance tasks, with a whopping overrun of $44 million. Minister, given that you promised Solar Victoria would create 50 jobs in the Latrobe Valley, exactly how many of these Solar employees are primarily based in Morwell and the Latrobe Valley and how many are based in Melbourne?