BUILDING THE EDUCATION REVOLUTION

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg) (17:03): I have a supplementary question for the Minister for Education. Will the state government provide the Yankalilla Area School with the difference in what is necessary for them to complete their gymnasium so that the children can use it as a result of this policy?

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Minister for Education, Minister for Early Childhood Development) (17:03): I will take the honourable member's question on notice. I am not precisely clear about the scope of works in that particular project. In the broad, though, the answer to the question is that the cost of doing the project has to fit within the BER funding.

I think the commonwealth has been very flexible with particular sites in trying to find ways of making these projects fit, given the time lines and given the fact that this is a national scheme with national guidelines. As I said, we welcome the scrutiny. As the Minister for Infrastructure mentioned, this has been an incredibly well-run scheme. We welcome the scrutiny of the small number of cases where concerns have been raised.

I do not rule out the fact that adjustments might have to be made. In answer to the question that has been put to me about why these additional components of the project are being visited on the school as opposed to being picked up by the state government, the truth is that they are part and parcel of the project, but if there are things that can be sensibly done I will look into that and respond to the member.