Park-and-Ride Facilities

Mr BOYER (Wright) (14:08): Supplementary to the Minister for Transport: if the expansion of the Tea Tree Plaza park-and-ride is a priority as the minister says it is, when will the expansion occur?

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis: In the fullness of time.

The SPEAKER: The member for Torrens has already been called to order. It would displease me greatly if he did not hear the honourable Treasurer's speech a bit later.

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (14:09): It's a bit hard for him to be sitting on that side of the chamber. He has to listen rather than just speak. We will be delivering on all our election commitments. Also, we have committed that we are going to go through the process on these park-and-rides. Member for Wright, I would like to take the opportunity, though, to correct some of the incorrect statements that were made by the member for West Torrens in commentary post the press conference that we held last week.

The member for West Torrens tried to suggest to the South Australian people that contracts had been signed to construct the Klemzig and the TTP park-and-rides. That is not true. I'm being extremely careful because I know exactly what happened. There is a PTP Alliance, which is a procurement model that has been set up. It involves four or five different companies—including Arup, Mott MacDonald, McConnell Dowell, the department and I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody—as a procurement model to be able to deliver on public transport projects.

PTP Alliance is currently undertaking the Oaklands crossing project. That is a project for which the former government signed off on construction. PTP, in addition to designing and constructing projects, actually go through and do planning work. That is what the former government signed off on: a planning study, a concept plan and a business case development plan. That is what they signed off on. They didn't sign to construct anything. They did not sign off to construct anything. If anyone wants to say anything opposite and continue to repeat that outside, then they are welcome to do so, but once again I come back to the fact that—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —we have been extremely explicit and clear about what it is that we are going to do. We have been continuously saying that Paradise is the highest priority and, as the Speaker bears down upon me, we dare not say anything else other than that.

The SPEAKER: Excellent.

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: But we then said that Golden Grove is the next priority, and after that we will deal with the Tea Tree Plaza and Klemzig park-and-rides. The commitments are still there. The money is still there inside the budget. We will work in an orderly process, step by step, using this procurement model, to make sure that we get the best and most efficient outcome for taxpayers' dollars, and we will do so in a way that we have outlined and will continue to outline if the house continues to ask.