20th February 2024 13:12
Victorian Legislative Council, Melbourne
I advise that I intend for the following to be treated as a short form documents motion.
I give notice that, on the next day of meeting, I will move —
That this House —
(1) notes the failure of the Victorian Government to release any report of the Expert Advisory Panel led by former Police Commissioner, Mr Ken Lay, into a second Medically Supervised Injecting Room in Melbourne’s CBD;
(2) requires the Leader of the Government, in accordance with Standing Order 10.01, to table in the Council, by Monday the 18th of March 2024, copies of —
(a) Mr Lay’s final report into the second Medically Supervised Injecting Room handed to the office of the former Minister for Mental Health on 31 May 2023;
(b) all drafts of Mr Lay’s report into the second Medically Supervised Injecting Room handed to the office of the former Ministers for Mental Health/Health since October 2020;
(c) all communications between the Department of Health and Mr Lay regarding the report and any related documents between January and September 2023; and
(d) all briefings to the Ministers for Health/Mental Health regarding options for a second Medically Supervised Injecting Room in Melbourne’s CBD, since May 2020.
[ENDS]
