Thursday, 15 August 2019

 Mr RICH-PHILLIPS (South Eastern Metropolitan) (13:00): My constituency question is to the Minister for Health regarding the Dandenong ambulance station, which is currently located at the corner of Stud Road and David Street in Dandenong. Four years ago, in August 2015, the government committed to upgrade six ambulance stations across Melbourne and allocated $20 million to that, and one of those commitments was to Dandenong ambulance station. Four years on, nothing has happened. Ambulance Victoria has vacated the Dandenong ambulance station, and it is now boarded up. There are local concerns about it being used as a drug den. There are concerns about fires, vandalism and squatters. Ambulance Victoria is operating out of a temporary site on the Princes Highway. So my constituency question to the minister is: when will construction of the rebuild of Dandenong ambulance station commence, and when will it be concluded?