ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (15:28): As a supplementary question, how will it be the most scrutinised project if it does not go to the Public Works Committee?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Treasurer, Minister for Employment, Training and Further Education) (15:28): Because it is the most looked at project. It has been talked about. You would have to chop down a forest with the amount of print that there is on this, with the amount—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: Look at them! Madam Speaker—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: Madam Speaker—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! There will now be order. Let the minister finish his answer.

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, the member for Norwood! The Treasurer.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: Madam Speaker, they are like the gibbons at the zoo. You just listen to them, they remind me of the gibbons at the zoo.

Mr PISONI: Point of order.

The SPEAKER: Point of order.

Mr PISONI: It is unparliamentary for members of parliament—

The SPEAKER: Yes, I will uphold that point of order. Sit down! Treasurer, can you finish your response?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: The fact is this is the most—

Mr PISONI: I ask that it be withdrawn. The Treasurer has—

The SPEAKER: Treasurer, can you withdraw your remark?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: Madam Speaker, if gibbons are insulted, I withdraw. The simple fact is that this is the most—

The Hon. P.F. Conlon interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, the Minister for Transport!

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: —scrutinised project in the state's history. It has been talked about, it has been endless—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: Endless questions have been asked of both the Minister for Health and the former treasurer on this issue. I am sorry if the member for Morphett has fallen asleep for the last four or five years, or however long the project has been talked about. We have been talking about this project and it has been the subject of questions in this place for many, many years.