In reply tothe Hon. AILEEN MacDONALD (12 November 2024).

The Hon. COURTNEY HOUSSOS (Minister for Finance, Minister for Domestic Manufacturing and Government Procurement, and Minister for Natural Resources)—The Minister provided the following response:

I am advised:

To date, there have been a number of scheduled outages on Health Infrastructure capital projects have been cancelled due to Electrical Trades Union Protected Industrial Action at both RPA and John Hunter hospital.

Health Infrastructure's contractors are working with electricity authorities to redesign around high voltage cables and are re‑sequencing work so that electricity-associated work is not on the project's critical path. The majority of capital projects have been able to mitigate the impacts of these cancellations.

The industrial action is ongoing and the financial impact to Health Infrastructure projects is being assessed, but a total cost cannot yet be provided.