ADELAIDE OVAL

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (15:14): My question is again to the Minister for Infrastructure. Who will pay for any cost overruns for the Adelaide Oval redevelopment project? The government has overseen cost overruns for the Northern Expressway from $300 million to $564 million; the Port River Expressway from $138 million to $175 million; The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Stage 2 Redevelopment from $42 million—this is a ripper—to $127 million; the Royal Adelaide Hospital, of course, famously from $1.7 billion to $2.73 billion; the Port River Bridge from $136 million to $178 million; the Techport precinct—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mrs REDMOND: —from $140 million to $257 million; the desalination plant from $1.1 billion to $1.8 billion; and, to join that up, the North-South Interconnector project from $304 million to $403 million—just got the figures around the wrong way.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: Point of order. Madam Speaker, can I remind the Leader of the Opposition that the—

Mr Williams: What's your point of order?

The SPEAKER: Order!

An honourable member: He's forgotten the point of order.

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr Williams: What do you remember?

The SPEAKER: Minister, do you have a point of order?

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: I remember the way back to my ministerial office which I have been occupying for 9½ years, which you never will. Madam Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition has access to a grievance. She is clearly not providing a sensible question to the minister.

The SPEAKER: I understand. Your point of order will be—

An honourable member: What's the point of order?

The SPEAKER: Ninety-seven, relevance. Have you finished? You are starting to debate.

Mrs REDMOND: The question was simply: who will pay for any cost—

The SPEAKER: It was a very simple question that you took considerable time to explain.

Mrs REDMOND: Who will pay for any cost overruns? There is a vast history. I could go on for some time yet with the history of them.

The SPEAKER: I think you have answered your question, leader; you can sit down. The Minister for Infrastructure.

The Hon. P.F. CONLON (Elder—Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for State/Local Government Relations) (15:16): As it would be out of order to respond to that debate, I will therefore answer the question—not the taxpayer.