House of Assembly: Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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ADELAIDE OVAL

The Hon. I.F. EVANS (Davenport) (15:01): My question is to the Treasurer. After the Treasurer conducted a thorough record and document search before making his ministerial statement on 27 May, why is it that the two meetings of 19 February and 13 April, at which the cost increase of the Adelaide Oval project were discussed, were the two meetings that the Treasurer left out of that statement on 27 May?

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY (Port Adelaide—Deputy Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Federal/State Relations, Minister for Defence Industries) (15:01): I have answered that question repeatedly. The mistake made, and I will take responsibility for that, was that we simply looked at the dates that the honourable member referred to in his questions. I did say in an earlier answer that for some weeks—and I guess that would be 19 April if I said that on the 25th—we were getting advice that there was likely to be a larger cost to the stadium.