Public Housing Tenants

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:30): That was now some weeks ago—

The PRESIDENT: Straight to the question.

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN: Can the minister answer whether Sean and Karen are in their new home?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:31): I stand by my previous statement—

The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: The Leader of the Opposition!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: —and I will also say that we are spending record amounts of money on maintenance in South Australia. I can repeat a whole range of things in relation to the record spending that we are putting into Housing Trust properties. I have avoided—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! The Leader of the Opposition and the Opposition Whip are out of order.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: I have resisted going to that place that the Labor Party wish me not to go to, but they have provoked me, Mr President.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: I think in terms of the—

The Hon. K.J. Maher: Telling someone to 'find their own place'?

The PRESIDENT: If the Leader of the Opposition does not cease, we will move straight to the next question.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: I think in terms of the maintenance, it's worth reminding the council that we have some 34,000 or 35,000 properties in the portfolio. When I came to office—

The Hon. I.K. Hunter: What about this one where you intervened in the media? What about this one in particular?

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Hunter is out of order!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: —they were in a sorry state. It takes time and investment to improve this particular portfolio.

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER: Point of order, Mr President.

The PRESIDENT: There is a point of order. The minister will resume her seat.

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER: Very plainly, sir, the minister was asked about one property and two people. She intervened in the media on it, and she is not responding to that question. She is talking about properties from years ago.

The PRESIDENT: The member will resume his seat. There is no point of order, but I am sure the minister is heading towards a conclusion to this answer, because we are going to move on soon.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: It is interesting. I am not sure that I am going to take tutorials from the Hon. Mr Ian Hunter about how to respond in question time.

The Hon. I.K. Hunter: It's simple: answer the question.

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: Three no-confidence motions.

The PRESIDENT: No pointing.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: Sorry.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: I will be quick. Labor routinely cut the maintenance budget. We have maintained the maintenance budget. We have put $30 million into it. We have been fast-tracking a whole lot of properties. We have been working through these in priority and—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: —doing a much better job than the Labor Party could ever have dreamed of.