Tuesday, 2 August 2022

 Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (14:44): (1878) My constituency question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety and concerns the Regional Roads Victoria Geelong office, which has lost at least 20 specialised, highly experienced staff in organisational restructuring. The budget revealed the Andrews government’s cut in road asset management spend from $807 million last financial year to $780 million this year. We now see the consequences not just in crater-like potholes on the roads today but in the loss of future capacity as senior and expert employees, engineers, geotechnical experts and project managers have departed. Minister, in this restructure how many employees with more than five years experience have left the Geelong Regional Roads Victoria office?