Gippsland South electorate
Danny O’BRIEN (Gippsland South) (14:50): (892) My question is to the Minister for Education. I am pleased he is at the table. My question is: when will the minister fund the rebuild of the Mirboo North schools stadium? I say schools because it is a stadium on the shared site of the Mirboo North primary and secondary schools. This is a stadium built in the 1970s. It is dramatically out of date; it is dangerous. And it is a community-use facility; it is not just used by the two schools. The football club, local basketball, badminton, yoga and various others also use it, and this is part of the problem. It is shoved around between different agencies, but ultimately it is owned by the Department of Education. I had the pleasure of the Minister for Community Sport coming to visit it earlier in the year and having a look, and she is happy to look at it for sport funding, but we actually need the education department to get involved in this. The facility is well and truly out of date, and I ask: when will the minister actually provide funding for this to be rebuilt?