Electric Trains

Mr WINGARD (Mitchell) (15:02): Supplementary: I want to know if the minister can get those—

The SPEAKER: The member for Mitchell should just start a new line of questioning.

Mr WINGARD: A new line of questioning? I didn't get any joy with the old line, so I will try a new line. Thank you, sir. Given that there are five excess electric trains that are in circulation, or will be when the 22^nd one comes online, where will the excess trains be housed?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister Assisting the Minister for Planning, Minister Assisting the Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (15:02): Notwithstanding the debate that was contained within that question, I will address that question in the same way that it was addressed—

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: Yes, keep bellowing—the noise of a desperate man. Keep bellowing, Steven, keep bellowing—proving that annoying idiom, that empty vessels do make the loudest noise.

The SPEAKER: Point of order, member for Morialta.

Mr GARDNER: The kindest way I can describe that is as debate, sir.

The SPEAKER: Well, it was a debate that was brought on by the indiscipline of the leader in interjecting in a personally insulting way. Minister.

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. This is a matter that has been canvassed both during estimates and also when the chief executive of the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure appeared before the upper house Budget and Finance Committee.

There is an assertion by the member for Mitchell that there will be five excess trains which will not be used on the network which are, in effect, as he has been describing them, 'wasted trains'; that's not the case. I have made it clear and the chief executive has made it clear that we will be using those trains at every opportunity.