AUSTRALIA'S top spy agency ASIO still can't be certain when it will move into its imposing new headquarters, despite former prime minister Kevin Rudd opening the building in July.
The $630 million building, which looks over Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin, was initially due to be ready for its top secret occupants in April 2012, but the project ran into delays and budget overruns and is still waiting for its new tenants.
ASIO's Director-General David Irvine said while the new building was "substantially completed", builders were still making sure all systems, such as the air-conditioning, were working properly.
"I still cannot give you a date when the certificate for completion will be completed," Mr Irvine told a Senate estimates hearing, adding he hoped the building would be finished by the end of the year.
"In the best of all possible worlds, we will begin to move into the new building in the new year."
The building, named the Ben Chifley Building in honour of the former Labor prime minister who founded ASIO in 1949, has been the subject of controversy, with an ABC report that Chinese hackers had gained access to the building's blueprints.
But Mr Irvine on Monday said there were no security problems with the new building.
"I remain confident that the building from a security point of view meets the standards we require of it," Mr Irvine said.
He said he had advised the previous government that the building should be opened before ASIO staff move in.
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