HOUSING SA

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg) (15:18): I have another question for the Minister for Housing, especially given the last answer. My question is: does the minister therefore support the Shared Services model in which Housing SA now pays 7 per cent more for using Shared Services SA than for those services when provided in-house? The board minutes of SA Housing Trust state:

Housing SA pays a significant amount more to Shared Services than it used to cost for the same in-house services...Housing SA will increase its cost for these services by about 7 per cent.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Minister, did you wish to answer that question?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Families and Communities, Minister for Housing, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Disability) (15:20): It is interesting that the member for Bragg comes in here trying to give the impression that she somehow supports public housing here in South Australia. We know that when they were in government it was—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! What is your point of order?

Mr WILLIAMS: Irrelevance and debate. The question was seeking to make—

The SPEAKER: Sit down, there's no point of order at this stage, she's only just started her answer. I will listen and see what she says.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: There was debate in the question; if you put debate in the question there's debate in the answer. Minister.

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE: Madam Speaker, we know they do not support public housing, they never have.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr WILLIAMS: That is both debate and clearly wrong.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The minister will finish her answer.

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE: They were on the route of decimating—

Mr Williams interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, member for MacKillop!

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE: —public housing here in South Australia. If they had been elected at the last election we know the horrendous things that they were going to do to our tenants.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE: In relation to the member for Bragg's assertions, I think I will be checking what she says. We know that she has come into this place on numerous occasions and made some wonderful assertions that turned out to be absolute fantasy—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE: —like the day she lost Steve Ramsey, the Deputy Executive Director of Families SA. Apparently he was missing somewhere, but we do know now that he was found at his desk. So, before I respond to assertions that the member for Bragg makes, I will check the validity of her comments.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!