GLENSIDE HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT

The SPEAKER: The Deputy Leader of the Opposition.

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:12): Excellent, thank you, sir. Thank you for the opportunity for a question. My question is to the Treasurer. Is the Glenside Hospital redevelopment that has been announced by the government conditional upon the sale of nearly half its land?

Last night, officers from the Department of Health were welcomed to my electorate to give a public meeting and a briefing on the redevelopment. At that meeting, in response to questions, the officers said the following. First, 'the government does not have any money for health'. In response to precincts 3, 4 and 5 (the commercial, retail and private housing development sell-off portions) they said, 'The property will be sold,' and they later said, 'These precincts are not negotiable.'

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY (Port Adelaide—Deputy Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Industry and Trade, Minister for Federal/State Relations) (15:13): And the deputy leader's point is?

Ms Chapman: Question: is it conditional?

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: I will get an exact—

Ms Chapman: No sale, no development, no hospital.

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: I will get this confirmed, but the normal order of events with such a project as this is that I assume that the forward estimates will hold all the expense side of the exercise, that is, that the government would appropriate funding for the expense side of the Glenside redevelopment, and further into the forward estimates would be the receipts from land sales. That is how we fund these projects. We do not say, 'Here is 60 per cent of the funding for the project and the other 40 per cent is coming from the sale of land, so we will not’—

Mr Pisoni interjecting:

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: Sorry?

Mr Pisoni interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Unley will come to order!

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: The Soviet Socialist Republic lives on in the Liberals opposite. Honestly! I will obtain an exact answer for the deputy leader, but I am not quite sure what the point was, to be honest.