Thank you, hon Chair. Minister, thank you for the statistics on manual authorisations and also for the projects that you have outlined. I think we need to get our rail infrastructure and our rail system up and running. We need to speed up
infrastructure development on train railway lines so that we don't prolong periods of manual train authorisations ... to avoid that.
In the last five years train accidents in the country happened during manual authorisations. The risk associated with manual authorisations to direct railway traffic and to keep trains clear from each other is too high. You mentioned some of the resignalling projects that are ongoing but I think you also need to clearly state the timeframes in terms of these ongoing projects.