Senator FIFIELD (Victoria—Manager of Government Business in the Senate, Minister for Communications, Minister for the Arts and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Digital Government) (15:02): I think there is only a very small number of people who are on that side of the chamber in this place and on that side of the chamber in the other place who still contend and persist with the fantasy that Senator Conroy did anything approaching a halfway decent job with the NBN. The entire nation knows it is not true. The PRESIDENT: Pause the clock. Senator FIFIELD: The entire nation laughs whenever Senator Conroy gets to his feet. The PRESIDENT: Order, Minister. Senator Moore: Mr President, I rise on a point of order going to direct relevance to the question: there was no attempt by the minister to refer to the question that was put. Rather he went to a generalisation about Senator Conroy and this side of the chamber. The PRESIDENT: I will remind the minister of the question and advise he has 37 seconds in which to answer. Senator FIFIELD: The NBN was going nowhere very fast under Senator Conroy. As we all know, there was not the work done for the planning of the NBN that I acknowledge those opposite did in the planning of the NDIS. There was not a 1,000-page Productivity Commission report laying out a blueprint. There was a coaster with scribble on the back. That was the comprehensive plan that Senator Conroy left the nation, and, in the rollout under him, it showed. (Time expired) Senator Brandis: I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.