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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Seaford Rail Line</name>
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        <heading>Seaford Rail Line</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3124" kind="question">
        <name>Mr PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Unley</electorate>
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            <name>Seaford Rail Line</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-05-18T14:44:52" />
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          <by role="member" id="3124">Mr PISONI (Unley) (14:44):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Transport. When will the promised report into the breakdown of the Seaford rail line on 28 April be completed, and on completion will it then be immediately published and released to the public?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4842" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Lee</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Transport and Infrastructure</name>
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            <name>Minister for Housing and Urban Development</name>
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          <question date="2016-05-18">
            <name>Seaford Rail Line</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-05-18T14:45:14" />
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          <by role="member" id="4842">The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:45):</by>  I thank the member for Unley for his question. As we all know, there was a significant power failure which caused train services to cease on the Seaford and Tonsley train lines. In fact, I should say 'electric train' services because we were pushed into a position of having to provide substitute services, some of which were substitute bus services and some of which were substitute diesel train services.</text>
        <text id="201605180b345403ea86493c90000786">At the time, I made it clear in my statements to the media that obviously we were conducting thorough investigations into what had caused this very unusual and very significant failure in some of the equipment which had been installed in the substation at Lonsdale. I also said that I would ask the Rail Commissioner to also assess all the infrastructure and the services supporting the infrastructure on both the Seaford and Tonsley rail lines, regardless of whether it was related to this incident, to try to make sure that we were doing everything we could to maintain reliable train services on those lines.</text>
        <text id="201605180b345403ea86493c90000787">Those investigations are continuing, to get to the nub of the member for Unley's question, and when we have the details of those investigations, yes, we will be making those findings public.</text>
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