Mr PALLAS (Tarneit) —  On  another matter, a new  health  service will be added  to the Wyndham community. I am aware that land has recently been sold for another large private hospital to be built in the area.  The details of the project are yet to be publicly announced,  but  it  is my understanding that the project will bring hundreds of jobs and hundreds of  new hospital beds to the city of Wyndham. This is  part of a growth  in the private health services  in Wyndham that serve  our community  well,  including the provision  of bulk-billing facilities  and a new mental health hospital that will open in May next year. This will add 30 beds in an area that  already  lacks  mental health services. With about 70 babies being born in Werribee every week, improved  health  services  come  at  a  time  when birthrates at the hospital are increasing to about 2000 a year.

See Tim’s speech in Hansard here.