Northern Victoria Region
Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL (Northern Victoria) (13:04): (844) My constituency question today is for the Minister for Emergency Services. Last week on budget day constituents in the Goulburn Valley found themselves without any available ambulances. Ambulances were ramped at GV Health for up to 9 hours. A constituent has reported that he called for an ambulance during this time and was told none were available and they would call him a taxi instead. There was not a single ambulance available from Numurkah, Shepparton or Tatura due to this ramping. The recently released budget shows a cut to ambulance funding of around $20 million from last year. The question my constituents want to ask is: when will the Allan Labor government stop putting their lives at risk and fix the crisis in our ambulance system?