NOARLUNGA RAILWAY LINE

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:04): My question is to the Minister for Transport Services. Why has the government failed to meet its deadline on the reopening of the Noarlunga train line?

The Hon. C.C. FOX (Bright—Minister for Transport Services, Minister Assisting the Minister for the Arts) (15:05): The question of the member for Bragg is based on a fallacy. I believe yesterday in this parliament when asked—

Mrs Redmond interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Heysen will depart the house for the next hour.

Mrs Redmond: It's alright for the first officer of the law in this state to override the law.

The honourable member for Heysen having withdrawn from the chamber:

The SPEAKER: I was rather hoping she would do a Roger Goldsworthy. The Minister for Transport Services.

The Hon. C.C. FOX: —and I would refer her, as I was just about to say, to the answer given by the member for West Torrens to that same question, which you asked him yesterday, which was, I believe, a matter of 45 to 60 days since his pronouncement of those dates. I refer you to the Hansard.

The SPEAKER: Deputy leader.