Adelaide Remand Centre

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:21): My question is to the Minister for Correctional Services. How will privatisation at the ARC actually see a saving of $5.6 million to the benefit of Serco?

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (14:21): I thank the member for the question. He has no doubt read the press release and seen the information that has gone out. The savings have been outlined as to what will be a return for the contract that we have signed and the money that will come back to the state government. I hear—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Members, please cease interjecting. Members will be leaving today. I was very tolerant yesterday—probably too tolerant.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: —the Leader of the Opposition again getting upset because we have delivered a better deal than he could. I understand his frustration because he was in the chair for a long time and we have outlined—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Leader of the Opposition is warned for a second and final time.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: Do you want your pen back? Is that your problem? Do you want your pen back?

The SPEAKER: Minister, please let's get on with it.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr Malinauskas: Have you read the brief?

The SPEAKER: Leader of the Opposition, the minister has the call.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: You do need to calm down or your eyes are going to pop out of your head. It's not a good look. We have signed the contract. The Leader of the Opposition knows that there are elements of that that are commercial-in-confidence. The contract will be put up on the website, as all government contracts have to be, except for the details that are commercial-in-confidence, and he knows and understands that. We have put—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: —a plan in place. I need to emphasise that we put the Better Prisons plan in place to actually fix the mess you made.

Mr Malinauskas: That's all you've got?

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: Yes, and it's really important.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: We signed on Serco to run the Adelaide Remand Centre. They will be doing that. They will be in place by August and we will roll out the rest of it. I can talk to you more about the rest of the Better Prisons program, but you don't want to hear it.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: It's all on the website. It will all be on the website. You can access all the information you want. The contract will be put on the website, like all contracts have to from government, and you can read it all there.

Mr Brown interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Playford is called to order and warned. The member for King and then I will come back to those on my left.

The Hon. S.S. Marshall: Not everybody is just in a union.

The SPEAKER: Premier, I am trying to give the member for King a question.

The Hon. D.G. Pisoni interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Minister for Industries, I am trying to give the member for King a question.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Leader of the Opposition and the Premier are warned. At least, if I eject both of them, no-one will complain.

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis: If I want Singapore noodles, I will give you a call.

The SPEAKER: Member for West Torrens, you are not assisting and you are warned. Member for King.