Northern Adelaide Irrigation Scheme

Mr GRIFFITHS (Goyder) (15:09): My question is to the Minister for Regional Development. What action has the minister taken to support the Northern Adelaide Irrigation Scheme? It is a project that the Barossa Regional Development Australia Board has identified as a priority; a project that three surrounding councils have submitted a business case for; and it was one of the seven investment-ready projects announced following last year's Regional Infrastructure Summit.

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL (Mawson—Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Tourism, Minister for Recreation and Sport, Minister for Racing) (15:10): The federal government, under federal agricultural minister, Barnaby Joyce, is heading up a taskforce looking at projects around Australia that are ready to go, and he has got a big bucket of money that he wants to get out to water projects. I have suggested that that, along with a few other projects around South Australia, would be very good for the federal government to have a look at funding.