Tuesday, 18 November 2025

 John BERGER (Southern Metropolitan) (23:32): (2134) My adjournment matter today is directed to the Minister for Ambulance Services in the other place. It was excellent to hear that more mobile intensive care ambulance – MICA for short – paramedics are hitting the roads this month to provide life-saving care to Victorians across the state. The Allan Labor government knows how vital Ambulance Victoria is to the healthcare system, and I am pleased to see this intake progress alongside our Victorian state budget 2025–26 investment into emergency services, with $58.4 million invested this year in expanding emergency department capacity and short-stay units and $146 million to support quicker emergency response and care across the state. In 2020 the then Andrews Labor government invested $181.8 million into Ambulance Victoria’s development program, focused on rebuilding and upgrading ambulance stations across the state. One of the reconstructed facilities was Mount Waverley ambulance station in my electorate of Southern Metro. My request is that the Minister for Ambulance Services visit Mount Waverley ambulance station with me to see firsthand how our investment into emergency services is benefiting the Ashwood community and surrounding areas.