David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, upon notice, on 26 November 2012:

With reference to the statement made by Mr Stephen Ludlam during the 2012-13 Budget Supplementary estimates hearing of the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, (Committee Hansard, 16 October 2012, proof p. 106), that 'The aim would be to target a two-year full cycle docking and we are progressively generating ideas to work to that target': What impact would a two-year cycle have in respect to the: (a) resources used to complete full cycle docking; and (b) cost of full cycle docking.

Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The answer to the honourable senator's question is as follows:

The aim of reducing the full cycle docking (FCD) schedule duration to a two year period is a target ASC has started to work towards. It is anticipated that moving to a single stream FCD cycle will drive efficiencies, however given that ASC is in the early stages of the replanning process, it is not possible at this time to quantify the effects on either the resources used or the associated costs.