Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The simple answer to the question is that the minister, Ms Macklin, has made it very clear that the commitments will be honoured—the commitments to building 750 new houses and performing 230 rebuilds and 2,500 refurbishments by 2013 will be met. That is the answer—that she will meet those requirements. I am sure at the up and coming estimates we will be able to take you through all the detail about the expenditure and the cost of houses et cetera. I suspect we will spend quite a bit of time on it, and I look forward to that. But the key response to you is to make it very clear that Ms Macklin and the government will deliver on the commitment made in relation to the number of houses, the number of rebuilds and the number of refurbishments. The government is committed to delivering on those assurances.