Thursday, 20 June 2024

Southern Metropolitan Region

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:37): (946) The Metro Tunnel goes through my electorate and will provide additional transport within my electorate. My constituency question is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. What we learned today is that yet again there is another massive blowout from Labor – billions of dollars. The last time this project blew out it was an additional $3 billion over its budget. $1.5 billion was swallowed by the state government – that is, the taxpayer – and another $1.5 billion of the blowout was swallowed by the tenderers. On this occasion it seems the taxpayer is on the hook – the contingency has run out and there are no additional funds there. I ask the minister if they will release a report on the details of these cost blowouts. Will they release a full report on who will pay?