House of Assembly: Tuesday, September 23, 2008

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MARJORIE JACKSON-NELSON HOSPITAL

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:18): My supplementary question is to the Minister for Health. Having indicated now that it is a $1.7 billion project, how can the minister suggest that that is its value when, in the Treasurer's own budget papers this year, that figure has been withdrawn and it is now not available because that figure is no longer reliable?

Mr Hamilton-Smith interjecting:

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts) (15:18): The grandchildren will pay for your proposition, too, if you have the chance of doing it because you would not finish it until your grandchildren were grown up as it would not be completed until 2025.

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: I rise on a point of order. The opposition are sticklers for points of order. I cannot hear the Minister for Health making good sense above this raucous, frankly, discourtesy.

The SPEAKER: The Minister for Health.

The Hon. J.D. HILL: The estimates for the Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Hospital were $1.7 billion.