Wednesday, 2 August 2023

Department of Transport and Planning

Katherine COPSEY (Southern Metropolitan) (18:10): (353) My adjournment this evening is for the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. The Transport Integration Act 2010 requires the Department of Transport and Planning to prepare and periodically revise an integrated transport plan for Victoria. In 2021 the Auditor-General found that the department:

… have not … demonstrably integrated transport planning and are yet to meet the Act’s requirements for the transport plan.

In fact the Auditor-General found that there are 40 separate plans and strategies, and despite what the department argued, the Auditor-General found that these plans and strategies do not together constitute an integrated transport plan for Victoria. Secondly, another of the Auditor-General’s recommendations seems very sensible and a reasonable accountability measure. They ask that the department establish completion time lines for all outstanding priority transport plans and start tracking progress against them.

My adjournment is to the minister. I ask that you fulfil these statutory requirements and produce Victoria’s integrated transport plan to provide direction to the department and ask it to fully accept the Auditor-General’s recommendation to establish completion time lines for all outstanding priority transport plans and start tracking progress against them.