Thursday, 3 April 2025

Northern Metropolitan Region

Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (12:40): (1524) My constituency question is to the Minister for Health, and it concerns the Craigieburn community hospital in my electorate. You have heard of the pub with no beer, but in Craigieburn we have got a new community hospital with no staff, no beds – it is not open. Despite the completion of major construction months ago, the facility remains dormant, leaving the people of Craigieburn without essential health services they were promised by Mr Andrews in 2018. Construction was scheduled for completion in 2024, but as we move into the second quarter of 2025 there is still no hospital up and running. In fact the health service has been told to go in the back way and not go in the front – there is a fence around it. The people of Craigieburn deserve the community hospital they have been promised, not an empty building. So I ask the minister to urgently work on the opening of the Craigieburn hospital.