Festival Plaza Redevelopment

Mr PISONI (Unley) (14:43): My question is to the Minister for Urban Development. Will the minister advise the house if the government has had any contact with the Walker Corporation relating to any government tenancy of floor space at the proposed Walker development behind Parliament House?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:44): I thank the member for Unley for his question. The short answer to that is: I will check. But it is an important question because, of course, a key element of the agreement that was reached between the government and Walker Corporation, which allowed the Festival Plaza redevelopment to commence, was that, in the event that Walker proceeded with its office accommodation building, the government effectively had a right of veto or the first right of refusal over who, in particular, the ground-floor tenant could be to make sure that the government retained a level of control about who that tenant was going to be and that that tenant could be kept to an organisation or a body or a use or a purpose in keeping with what we had envisaged for the plaza precinct.

I give that background because, in that context, it is entirely likely that there has been some contact. I am not particularly familiar with it, so it would be prudent for me to check and bring back an answer to the house.