Thursday, 6 March 2025

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:52): (1449) My constituency question today is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, and it relates to the ongoing dust and dirt that is wafting out of the North East Link construction site and blanketing nearby homes and significantly impacting residents who live close to that construction area. So many people around this area have been deeply affected by living near what is a really massive construction site. Homes are covered in dust. People are concerned about their local air quality, the impacts on their health, not to mention the noise and disruption that I have raised already in this place that this toll road project is already causing. Minister, people who live near the construction sites are the ones feeling the impacts most deeply. Their once quiet green streets are now dirty construction zones. Will you at least commit to providing window and exterior housecleaning to nearby homes to remove the thick dust and dirt that is caking the outside of residents’ houses?