FINN IN THE HOUSE Speeches August to December 2015 Published by Bernie Finn MP Member for Western Metropolitan Region Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Melbourne’s West Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Autism Spectrum Disorder Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Electoral Integrity Suite 101, 19 Lacy Street, Braybrook Vic 3019 Telephone (03) 9317 5900 • Fax (03) 9317 5911 Email [email protected] Web www.berniefinn.com FINN IN THE HOUSE Speeches August to December 2015 CONTENTS Sunbury rail services ..........................................................3 Aspergers Victoria .............................................................17 Climate change ....................................................................3 Sunbury rail services ........................................................17 Autism services ....................................................................3 Local Government Amendment (Improved Autism services waiting lists ...........................................3 Governance) Bill 2015 ......................................................17 Sunbury municipality ........................................................3 Vocational education and training .............................18 Abuse in disability services ..............................................3 Department of Treasury and Finance: budget Vocational education and training ...............................4 papers 2015-16 ..................................................................19 Tullamarine Freeway congestion ...................................4 Essendon Keilor College .................................................19 Foetal organ trading...........................................................4 March for the Babies ........................................................19 Landfill guarantee ...............................................................5 Traffic delays: economic impact ...................................19 Vietnam Veterans Day ........................................................5 Sunbury rail crossing........................................................20 Western suburbs youth workers ....................................5 Sunbury rail services fines ..............................................20 Essendon level crossing ....................................................5 Michelle and Stevie Payne .............................................20 Autism support groups .....................................................5 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment Werribee South road interchange .................................6 Bill 2015 .................................................................................20 Infrastructure Victoria Bill 2015 ......................................6 Sunbury rail services ........................................................21 Williams Landing school ...................................................7 Police numbers ...................................................................22 Hon. Francis Raymond Scully ..........................................7 Law Reform, Road and Community Safety Horne Street-Gap Road, Sunbury ..................................8 Committee ...........................................................................23 Regional and rural gas supply ........................................8 Deer Park level crossing ..................................................23 Government performance ...............................................9 Sunbury municipality ......................................................24 Sunbury rail services ..........................................................9 Adoption Amendment (Adoption by Albion railway station ........................................................9 Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2015 .........................................24 Sunbury public meeting ...................................................9 Adoption Amendment (Adoption by Carranballac P-9 College ...................................................9 Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2015 .........................................25 Main Road, St Albans, Level Crossing .........................10 Derrimut Hotel ...................................................................25 Bulla landfill .........................................................................10 Minister for Agriculture questions on notice ..........25 Western suburbs road gridlock ....................................10 Sunbury municipality ......................................................25 Regional rail link ................................................................10 Traffic congestion ..............................................................25 Public holidays ...................................................................11 Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment Sunbury rail services ........................................................11 (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2015 .........................................26 National Electricity (Victoria) Amendment Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment Bill 2015 .................................................................................12 (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2015 .........................................27 Sunbury municipality audit review ............................13 City of Wyndham ...............................................................36 Sunbury municipality ......................................................13 Landfill waste site ..............................................................36 Western suburbs road strategy ....................................13 Government Performance .............................................36 Government performance .............................................13 Western distributor ...........................................................39 Racing Amendment Bill 2015 .......................................14 Sunbury rail services ........................................................39 Autism Health & Well Being Expo ................................14 Delivering Victorian Infrastructure (Port of Sunbury rail timetable .....................................................15 Melbourne Lease Transaction) Bill 2015....................39 Warrnambool-Geelong rail services ...........................15 Autism services ..................................................................40 Sunbury community ........................................................16 Impact of western distributor .......................................41 Serious Sex Offenders (Detention and Autism services ..................................................................41 Supervision) and Other Acts Amendment Sunbury municipality: audit committee cost .........41 Bill 2015 .................................................................................16 Moonee Ponds Creek .......................................................41 Western distributor road ................................................17 Suite 101, 19 Lacy Street, Braybrook Vic 3019 • Telephone (03) 9317 5900 • Fax (03) 9317 5911 Email [email protected] • Web www.berniefinn.com IN 2 AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2015 FINN THE HOUSE COUNCIL | Constituency questions Minister for Housing, Disability and COUNCIL | Adjournment 4 August 2015 Ageing. It is important to point out 5 August 2015 that in the area of autism the first and most important program of all is early intervention. It cannot be stressed too Sunbury rail much, and it is extraordinarily important Sunbury in the life of any child with autism. It is services absolutely crucial, and the earlier a child municipality Mr FINN (Western Metropolitan) receives early intervention, the better the Mr FINN (Western Metropolitan) — I — My constituency question is to the results will be. wish to raise a matter this evening for Minister for Public Transport, and I Just a few weeks ago I visited the Olga the attention of the Minister for Local thank the minister for her answers to my Tennison Autism Research Centre at La Government. The matter follows a public previous constituency questions, none Trobe University. The staff are doing some meeting I attended at the memorial hall of which, I have to add, provided any amazing work there. I came away from in Sunbury just a few short weeks ago. It useful information. I refer to the debacle that visit with a very big smile on my face, was a meeting held under the auspices of occurring at Sunbury railway station on a having seen some of the wonderful work the auditors who are apparently reviewing daily basis. Commuters are increasingly in they are doing. One of the programs they the decision by the previous government a state of total confusion as to which trains are working on is the detection of autism to remove Sunbury from the City of Hume, they can board or indeed when V/ Line in children as young as six months. That and I am delighted to be able to tell the trains now leave. Some drivers have would be an extraordinary achievement, house that Sunbury still knows how to apparently been directed to leave early and I am told they are not far away from hold a public meeting. The place was to avoid picking up passengers. Will the doing so. Even if they succeed, it only packed to the rafters, and there was plenty minister personally intervene to clarify the makes a difference if an early intervention of give and take and good old-fashioned situation for those seeking to catch trains program is available. heckling. It was like going back to a at Sunbury? World’s