Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

As I have already indicated, Telstra have suspended all their remediation work—100 per cent; all. NBN Co. themselves have agreed that, when they find a pit that needs to be augmented—as you are now familiar with that phrase, Senator—they will actually bring in experts who are specialists in handling asbestos.

So, in NBN Co.'s work, that is continuing. They are not using their existing workforce; they are ensuring that they are all adequately trained to meet all the standards that were set out. In terms of whether there has been any rescheduling of handovers, I think I have usually described it as Telstra are about six months, on average—that is an average figure—ahead of the point where NBN Co. come in and start connecting people's houses. I do not have any information at all on that. I am happy to take on notice to see if there is any information that is available, but I have not been—(Time expired)