Question Time

PARKS COMMUNITY CENTRE

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:13): I will be interested to see if I get any answers today, because I certainly was not getting them yesterday.

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: Point of order.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Minister for Transport, point of order.

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: I think it is enormously disrespectful of you to ignore the standing orders, having been read the riot act. On their head be it.

The SPEAKER: I do not think that was a standing order, but I agree with you.

Ms CHAPMAN: Point of order. He accused you, Madam Speaker—you, as the Speaker, as he is addressing you—and that is insulting to the Speaker.

The SPEAKER: I am not sure that that is a standing order also, but we will continue. I will now ask you, Leader of the Opposition—we have people waiting with bated breath to hear answers to these questions—to please ask your question.

Mrs REDMOND: My question is for the Premier. Why does it take the Commissioner for Social Inclusion and member of the Sustainable Budget Commission, Monsignor David Cappo, to recommend to the government that they not close the Parks Community Centre when the Premier has an Attorney-General who is the local member for Enfield and a minister for community services who are both providing advice to the cabinet?

The Hon. M.D. RANN (Ramsay—Premier, Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Social Inclusion, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change) (14:14): I think it is most appropriate for discussions between members of the government and the social inclusion commissioner on issues relating to social inclusion; that is his role.

An honourable member interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!