Thursday, 4 December 2025

 Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:49): (2065) My question is for the Minister for Emergency Services, and I ask: Minister, while you have announced what you describe as the biggest ever round of volunteer emergency services equipment program grants, totalling more than $30 million, can you explain once again why people in the south-east have missed out? For instance, Skye CFA has been completely ignored. Will you guarantee that one of these new vehicles that are being allocated will be allocated to the Skye CFA, so that our volunteers are not left to protect a growing community with unsafe, outdated trucks? Skye CFA is continually being forced to respond in trucks from 2002 and 1992, vehicles that are slow, unsafe and not fit for purpose in a growing urban community with new housing estates and factories.