NILLUMBIK: Eltham MLA speaks about Emergency Fund
Eltham MLA Vicki Ward (pictured) spoke n State Parliament about the Emnergency Services and Volunteer Fund.
“This fund is there to support our emergency services, and this includes our incredible volunteers, both the CFA and, for the first time, the SES,” Ms Ward said.
“We support our emergency services on this side of the chamber. We support our volunteers on this side of the chamber, and this is why this fund … since becoming minister, in the various brigades and SES units that I have visited they have consistently said to me – and in fact I think that all of our members here, when they go out to visit their brigades and their units, will hear the same thing: ‘We are having more demands on our responses. We have to get out more. The challenges are more complex. There is more we have to do. Can we please have more support? We need new appliances. We need better facilities. We need more support.’
“And this is exactly what this Government is doing: giving that support,” Ms Ward said.