Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. In particular, I acknowledge that, from a whole range of advices through the department to me, I was in a position to be able to bring forward and assess clearly the risks that had been identified and put mechanisms in place to deal with managing those risks. That includes the Installer Provider Register, that includes the audit and compliance scheme, that includes referencing Australian standards in the Building Code, that includes the establishment of memorandums of understanding with fair trading agencies and the ACCC and it includes convening regular industry consultative roundtables in order to monitor the program’s rollout. The fact is that it was the department’s role to bring me forward advice on the basis of risks identified in their consideration, and on that basis it was for me to consider that advice and put in place a—

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