Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The minister's response continued:

Yet today—only slightly more than two years later—in just one electorate in Western Australia over 28,000 premises are ready for service. Indeed, when we came to government, Western Australia's NBN rollout was in such disarray that the primary contractor, Syntheo, had pulled out of that market.

This was another contract by the Labor government. Remember that contractor, Syntheo, you guys selected to roll out the NBN? Where are they? They pulled out of the market. Mr Fletcher continued:

So we have turned that situation around in a short period of time. Thanks to the advocacy of the member for Swan on behalf of his constituents, some 15,500 homes and businesses in Ascot, Belmont, Cloverdale, Perth, Redcliffe and Rivervale will see construction begin in the first quarter of 2017 …

To update the member for Lyons, we have now connected over 59,000 premises in Swan.

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