Rail Signal Failures

Mr WINGARD (Mitchell) (15:02): My question again is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. Were there more signal failures on the Gawler line again last night during peak travel and how many signal failures have there been on the Adelaide Metro line over the past two months?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister Assisting the Minister for Planning, Minister Assisting the Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (15:03): As for signal failures that occurred yesterday, I will have to seek a report for the member for Mitchell and come back to him. Of course, as we outlined in the recent state budget, the failure of signalling equipment and the disruption that it causes across the Adelaide Metro rail network has been of concern to this government, to the extent that an additional $12 million has been provided in the most recent state budget to upgrade different parts of the signalling infrastructure in an effort to minimise the risk of these sorts of incidents occurring in the future.