OAKLANDS PARK RAIL OVERPASS

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg) (15:03): My question again is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. I thank him for his previous answer and commitment to the Oaklands road-rail project. What part of the unfunded $100 million Oaklands rail crossing upgrade will be for the station, to replace the $6.8 million station that you will have to knock down, and to replace the electrification infrastructure that you will have to tear down to do it?

The Hon. P.F. CONLON (Elder—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (15:03): It is very interesting. I note the explanation to the question, where I have committed to do this, apparently. Well, for the benefit of the member for Bragg, what was—

Dr McFetridge interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: Oh, so you're still here? I thought we did a condolence motion for you. The story in the paper, the comments that have been made today, even the member for Bragg's own explanation, was that it is a piece of planning that is unfunded at present. As it is unfunded, therefore—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Ms Chapman interjecting:

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: When you're done; I've got plenty of time. The member for Bragg knows full well that what has been released is the—

Ms Chapman: Aspiration.

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: Well, if the member for Bragg knows the answer, which I'm sure she does, because she knows the answer to everything—she is certainly a Renaissance member, a polymath of the highest order. She certainly knows everything about every subject—

The SPEAKER: Minister!

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: —I don't know why she bothers with the question.

The SPEAKER: Minister, you will answer the question, not give personal reference to the member for Bragg.

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: The member for Norwood has woken up too.

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: Nothing reassures me more about our future than knowing he's the future of them.

Mr PENGILLY: Point of order, ma'am: relevance.

The SPEAKER: Thank you. Minister have you finished your answer? Could you wind it up quickly please.

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: The simple fact is that it is the engineer's plans for the proper solution—unfunded at present—for that intersection, so it is very hard for me to tell you what will be torn up, put down or moved as it is not funded and has no timetable at present.

The SPEAKER: Thank you.