Ms ROWLAND (Greenway—Minister for Communications) (15:10): I thank the member for his question. Improving access, especially to regional communications, is a top priority for the Albanese government, and— Mr Violi interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Casey will leave the chamber under 94(a). The member for Casey then left the cham ber. Ms ROWLAND: for the benefit of the member, I will set out the different elements of our plan to do so. The government's election commitment of $40 million for the Improving Mobile Coverage Round of the Mobile Black Spot Program is to address mobile connectivity concerns at 54 target locations around Australia. The locations were based on feedback from communities to local members, councils and mobile carriers, including reported coverage and capacity concerns; natural disaster risks; areas affected by bushfire; and safety along transport routes. The important thing here is that these were election commitments. They were incorporated in Labor's pre-election costings. In other words, we are delivering on our election commitments because we funded them in our budget. Now— Mr Coleman: Mr Speaker— Mr Burke: This can't be on relevance. The SPEAKER: The minister is being directly relevant to the question, so it can't be a point of order on relevance; otherwise, there will be consequences for abuse of the standing orders. I give the call to the member for Banks. Mr Coleman: Mr Speaker, the question very clearly asked— The SPEAKER: What is the point of order? Mr Coleman: It's on relevance. The SPEAKER: You may leave the chamber under 94(a). Mr Coleman interjecting— The SPEAKER: No. The member for Banks then left the chamber. The SPEAKER: I'll hear from the manager. Mr Fletcher: Mr Speaker, with great respect, if you are to say to this side that we cannot raise a point of order on relevance, which is in the standing orders—the wording of this question is quite precise. Were the locations based on advice from the minister's department? The minister has not addressed that. Honourable members interj ecting— The SPEAKER: Order! I'll deal with this. Yes, it is correct: points of order can be taken on relevance. If a minister is answering directly about the question—it may not be the specific answer you want—that is not a time to simply get up and ask for a point of order on relevance. I warned the member about that. The minister is being relevant. And if that standing order is going to be abused, there will be consequences. I will return the minister to the dispatch box to continue with her answer. Ms ROWLAND: Now, it appears the member is confusing election commitments with other funding allocations that were made under the October budget. We also have public consultation on the draft grant opportunity guidelines from 14 November to 28 November 2022 conducted by the department. The feedback provided in the consultation process was used to prepare the final grant opportunity guidelines that were published on 2 February. Now, let's be very clear. We also have, under our better connectivity plan, $150 million over two streams. There is $100 million for place based connectivity solutions, and $50 million for mobile black spot solutions, to deliver new mobile coverage to regional, rural and remote areas. So it is very clear that, under this program, which is an election commitment, for which guidelines went out to the public to determine, and for which we had commitments to improve connectivity in areas which had elevated bushfire and flooding risks, right across Australia, we had local communities contribute to these draft guidelines. What I would say to those opposite is that I encourage them to work with their local communities on these rounds of black spot funding, for which the guidelines have been open for public consultation. This government is delivering on its election commitments. This government urges those opposite to do the best by their local communities and participate in that process. (Time expired) Mr Jones interjecting— The SPEAKER: The Assistant Treasurer is warned.