eCARL

Ms SANDERSON (Adelaide) (14:36): My question is to the Minister for Education and Child Development. Can the minister advise why the eCARL system crashed over the weekend?

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development) (14:37): I thank the member for Adelaide for her question. My understanding of the operation of the eCARL system is that it is set up in such a way that should a failure occur an alert is automatically generated so that the department knows the system has gone down. The advice we have is that on the weekend a fault occurred that had never occurred previously; therefore, that alert was not raised. As soon as the department was aware of the failure it was rectified, and should any similar faults occur again an automatic alert will be raised.