Thursday,12 September 2024


Questions without notice and ministers statements

Ballarat car parking


Joe McCRACKEN, Gayle TIERNEY

Ballarat car parking

Joe McCracken: On a point of order, President, I ask that the minister be relevant to the question. I asked if these 400 parking spaces were part of the commitment given to Ballarat for 1000 car parks in 2018. She is not answering whether that is a yes or a no.

Harriet Shing: Further to the point of order, President, Mr McCracken would be well served to go back to the preamble to his question, which in fact referred to the minister’s visit to Ballarat last week, and she is in fact going exactly to that detail to talk about what has been delivered.

The PRESIDENT: I did hear the minister mention a number of car parks and the number of car parks promised to be delivered in a timeframe, so I think she has been relevant to the question.

Gayle TIERNEY: Further, there are 120 car park spaces at the Ballarat GovHub, which I announced with Juliana Addison – again, the very active car parking proponent of Ballarat – and they will become available next year. That is so that locals have even more free public car parking options to go where they want to go. This is an exciting opportunity that Ballarat residents understand, and if you listened to your local 3BA radio station, you would understand this as well, Mr McCracken.