Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I refer the minister to media reports that show that NBN Co. had identified, validated and was on track to implement substantial cost savings in its fibre-to-the-home rollout, and yet current NBN Co. chair, Ziggy Switkowski, at last week's Senate hearings dismissed these cost savings as 'not passing a special test'. Will the minister confirm that NBN Co. has identified billions of dollars of cost savings? And does he support rejecting these savings just so Mr Turnbull's mates can deliver a 'special' NBN review that justifies the government's switch to a second-rate broadband— (Time expired)