Tuesday, 28 May 2024

Adjournment

Jaclyn SYMES (Northern Victoria – Attorney-General, Minister for Emergency Services) (20:39): I move:

That the house do now adjourn.

Hospital funding

Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (20:39): (905) My adjournment matter this evening is for the attention of the Minister for Health, and it is in relation to the reviews of the three community hospitals that have been scrapped from the Victorian budget. Today during the debate we were having a discussion – I was having the discussion with the Attorney-General at the table – around the 10 community hospitals that had been promised by Labor in 2018. In that discussion it was confirmed that reviews of those three sites, Eltham, Torquay and Emerald Hill, were taking place. It was suggested that that be followed up through the Department of Health in relation to where those projects are at. I know there is some concern in the Emerald Hill precinct around what will happen to the buildings that had been identified, and now there is nothing happening around those buildings and around the social housing and other areas in South Melbourne. Nevertheless it does affect the communities of Eltham and Torquay as well, who were promised by Labor that they would have a community hospital. We keep hearing from the minister that she is committed to delivering health care closer to home, but this is another broken promise, another con job, by Labor to the Victorian community. The action I am seeking is for the minister to provide to the community a clear explanation as to when the reviews of those three community hospitals will be completed and made public.