Victoria's ombudsman will be asked to investigate whether Labor rorted the public using taxpayer-funded electorate staff in election campaigning.
The opposition says it will ask Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass to investigate reports Labor MP electorate workers were improperly assigned to campaign tasks.
"You can't use these staff in office times for anything else except working for those members," Liberal leader Matthew Guy told reporters on Thursday.
"If you are a member in Ballarat and you send your staff to campaign in Bentleigh, clearly there is a problem."
Three Labor MPs broke ranks to reveal the party used taxpayer-funded staff to run its Community Action Network during the campaign, the Herald Sun reported on Wednesday.
Premier Daniel Andrews maintains his party followed the rules, but on Thursday he would not answer direct questions about whether electorate staff were working for Labor's Community Action Network.
"We're not going to go round and round. Yesterday I was very clear, I'm answering your question very directly - there are rules and the rules have been followed," Mr Andrews told reporters.
Mr Andrews said Labor followed the rules for pooling electorate staff.
Upper house president Bruce Atkinson and lower house speaker Telmo Languiller are deciding how they will investigate the Labor's electorate staffing arrangements.
"We will take this matter under deliberate consideration," he told the upper house on Wednesday.
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