Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the 26 unheeded warnings that the government received about the dangers inherent in the Home Insulation Program throughout 2009. The program was eventually linked to at least 207 house fires, potentially four tragedies and nearly a quarter-of-a-million dodgy or dangerous home insulation installations. How can the Prime Minister now be trusted to get other policies right, such as the $43 billion NBN when she could not even safely give away free pink batts?

Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the shadow minister for his question. The matter he raises has been the subject of extensive discussion and indeed questions in this place. The answer that I am going to give him is not going to be different to any of my earlier answers on the question. I have acknowledged in this place—indeed, I believe that I acknowledged it on the very first day that I was Prime Minister—that the Home Insulation Program had become a mess and that the government needed to act to address the consequences of that program. And we have.