Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy. I refer the minister to the statement by NBN Co. CEO, Mike Quigley, to Senate estimates two weeks ago:

In October we were forecasting just under 300,000 premises passed; we are now forecasting almost exactly the target of 286,000.

Will the minister inform the Senate of the latest advice he has received from NBN Co. regarding the number of brownfields premises to be passed by fibre and able to be connected by 30 June this year? Has the minister received any information that differs from Mr Quigley's latest forecast of 286,000 premises?