Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator McAllister. Project Marinus began in 2017. For more than seven years this project has literally been a pipeline dream of Tasmania, Victoria and the Australian government. Construction for the project isn't meant to start until 2026, with the first cable to be ready in 2030. A second cable, if that ever goes ahead, will apparently be ready by 2033. Energy market volatility around the world has blown the cost of undersea cables out of the water, and this has been worsened by incompetent management at Marinus Link and a clueless Tasmanian government. By almost every metric it seems that the Marinus Link project isn't on track to be ready on time, let alone to be built at all. Minister, are you confident this project will be delivered on time?