Service SA Mount Barker

The Hon. D.R. CREGAN (Kavel) (14:34): My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Can the minister provide an update on service volumes at the Mount Barker Service SA centre? I recognise he may wish to take this question on notice.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Treasurer, Minister for Energy and Mining) (14:34): I am now liberated from the member's constant complaints about everything going on in Kavel, especially when it comes to road transport infrastructure. I've got to say he is a relentless letter writer and emailer when it comes to his local constituency, and given we are heading to the end of his time here I want to pay tribute to him and the work he has done in Kavel. As a local MP he has been tireless in his advocacy for his local community, whether it's arguing for commonwealth money, state money, local council money, more money—money anywhere he can get it from for his local community. He has been relentless.

He knows what regional communities go through when we in this place, on both sides of parliament, make requirements for people to go to Service SA to do their day-to-day business. It is an imposition on people and often we make it very difficult for people to get to Service SA centres. Indeed, there were some alternative plans to close Service SA centres, which is probably one of the big reasons why my learned friend now sits on the crossbench rather than with his former colleagues. He is a man of integrity.

I will get those answers for him sine die—a bit of Latin on his way out—and I will make sure that he gets a fulsome answer from the very capable Minister for Infrastructure and Transport in another place.