House debates Questions without Notice

Home Insulation Program

Wednesday, 10 February 2010 House of Representatives

Peter Garrett

Peter Garrett Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts

2:13 pm

In addition, the industry skills council developed a pocketbook to support the training package, and that pocketbook warns explicitly of the dangers of electricity—that stapling live wires to joists can be life threatening—and that advice from a licensed electrical contractor should be sought. As I have consistently said, I will not hesitate to boost training requirements, safety standards and compliance measures under this program. That is what I have done today and that is what I did last year as well in order to have a program that meets the Australian standards, or exceeds them, as it does, and fully conforms to the advice that we have received and that I have received from my department in this matter. I am further in a position—

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