Two parliamentarian staff were taken to hospital after ceiling panels collapsed on them inside Brisbane's Commonwealth offices, where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was holding a federal cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

Emergency crews were called to Level 36 Waterfront Place at Eagle Street just before 11am to reports part of a ceiling had collapsed.

Three female staff members, one from Canberra and two from Brisbane, suffered cuts and abrasions when three ceiling tiles, estimated to be about a square metre in size, fell on them.

One of the women injured was treated for shock while another was treated for an ankle injury.