Notice of Motion - School Maintenance Audit

I move that this House — (a) congratulates the Minister for Education on the recent announcement of a full audit of the condition of buildings in every government school across Victoria; (b) notes that this audit is part of the Government’s $100 million school maintenance fund and will be used to help prioritise maintenance needs across Victoria’s schools; (c) notes that between 2000–01 and 2009–10 the Labor Government cut school maintenance funding by a massive 20 per cent, from $73 million to $59 million; (d) condemns the members for Albert Park, Bellarine, Bendigo West, Clayton, Eltham, Essendon, Footscray, Geelong, Lara, Macedon, Monbulk, Niddrie, Northcote, Pascoe Vale, Preston, Tarneit, Williamstown and Yan Yean for addressing 26 adjournment matters between them to the Minister for Education which called on him to do what they should have done when they were in government; (e) notes that according to the Labor Opposition the sky fell in, or in the case of the Member for Tarneit the roof, on 28 November 2010; and (f) calls on these members to stop questioning the integrity of the Minister and instead take a good long hard look at their inaction while they were in government.