Mr. Peter Hendrick:

Everybody understands premises. They understand that there are many homes they have to pass. Maybe we did not explain it correctly. The exam test is the evidence to show that we have got all the paperwork; that we have paid all our suppliers; that we have tested all the parts of the network; that the network works; that we have done our demand stimulation; and that we have managed our stakeholder engagement. There are many tests that we have to do in each of the 227 deployment areas. There are a number of reports that we have to deliver to the Department and to the independent certifier.

An independent certifier goes out into the field and validates that we have done everything that we said we were going to do. There is a huge amount of process work. We are trying to automate all of those reports so that we can get them done faster. Yet, at the moment, there are still many people involved in pulling together all of those reports, in working with the contractors and in getting those reports.

The milestone dates are set in the contract. The dates that were originally in the contract got pushed out for issues that we got relief upon, in other words, Covid-19. We had to evidence all of those impacts. We had to show where we were impacted. The Department had to validate that with its advisors that that was the case.