Question Time

Park-and-Ride Facilities

Mr BOYER (Wright) (14:06): My question is to the Minister for Transport. Why has the government scrapped expansion of the Tea Tree Plaza park-and-ride?

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (14:09): We haven't. I thank the member for Wright for his question, but I think very clearly there was $15 million dollars provided for in last year's budget for the provision for two park-and-rides. That money is still there. What we announced last week is that we are going to add to that money to provide $18½ million towards the park-and-rides at Golden Grove and Paradise.

I think what we said very clearly is the fact that Paradise is the highest priority for creating park-and-rides along the O-Bahn network—a view, for instance, that the department shares, a view of anybody who has had to park along Darley Road over the past decade has shared. It is actually a view that the former government shared prior to 2014, but then, when its little car park tax went away, it felt that the priorities changed. Well, they didn't change. The people of Paradise and the surrounding areas still wanted their park-and-ride.

The Speaker has deftly since 2012 fought for the project, and now we are going to deliver it. It is a fantastic announcement by a government that actually keeps its promises, that takes the project to the election. It does not use excuses—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —about budget change to not deliver on its election promises.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: It delivers on its election commitments. So we will do Paradise first as the highest priority. We will then move on to Golden Grove, and then we will move on to Klemzig and Tea Tree Plaza, and we will deliver these. But I will say that there has been a reordering of the priorities because, instead of—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —using the—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —poor residents of Paradise and the surrounding suburbs, who have been punished because the former government was playing politics with this, we are getting on with delivering this—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —and getting the job done. And what members opposite—and I don't want to spoil—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The minister will be heard in silence!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —the Treasurer's speech, but this is going to become a recurring theme that we have delivered on our election commitments, and we will continue to deliver on them. I look forward to more questions from those opposite about how we are going to do exactly what we said we would do before the election.

The SPEAKER: Before I call the member for Wright, I call to order the following members: the member for West Torrens, the Minister for Education and the member for Kaurna. The member for Wright.