Eastern Victoria Region
Renee HEATH (Eastern Victoria) (13:08): (209) My question is for the Treasurer. Where is the $290 million that you promised to the people of Bass at the last election for the stage 2 upgrades of the Wonthaggi Hospital? Despite $4 billion in hospital commitments at the last election, the state Labor government has allocated $320 million in last week’s horror budget. That is just 7.95 per cent of the promised funding. By the way, to put that into perspective, we are currently paying $10 million per day in interest. So this government is actually spending more in interest repayments in just 33 days than it is over the entirety of the budget for health infrastructure, but that is an aside. Last September Labor shipped out the Premier to Wonthaggi for a photo opportunity for the announcement. It was all over Facebook and it was all over Instagram, but where is our funding?