Can't remember if it was the DWP or the DIIP (still can't get used to not call it the DCP!), anyway, what was said was that steel will start being cut in 2018 and all 12 OPV's will be completed by 2030.
And that thick head Conroy couldn't begin to understand how that translates into a continuous build and repeatedly quoted the DWP on the subject. Faced by one of the Admirals - Griggs IIRC - explaining slowly, using small words, that continuous build doesn't actually mean building the exact same ships until eternity, but that the Mine Hunters and Hydro ships would probably follow
as also signalled in the DWP he flapped around and said "but that's not what it says". The other senior RAN officer (not sure who he is) started to answer, then very obviously bit his tongue rather than tell a potential minister to wake the hell up and listen.
A very long video, but the section around the OPV was extremely entertaining if you like to see politicians proving just how slow on the uptake they can be.
Also, Conroy spent a considerable time beating around about whether the OPVs will definitely, absolutely, hand on heart and hope to die, be made of steel and not aluminium until the whole panel of respondents, Naval, political and bureaucratic, looked fed up and someone made a joke of the whole business.
Politicians eh? Some good, some ordinary, some dire, and then the oxygen thieves like Conroy.
oldsig