Mary Fisher (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Listen, Labor colleagues, to the detail which you should have sought and to which you should have paid attention prior to the hasty implementation of this program. The professor went on to say:

… and so it actually rains inside these metal roofs in Townsville.

He also said:

If you have bulk insulation across the ceiling below that raining surface, you get moisture build-up in the insulation which affects its insulating properties. It will heat up dramatically during the day but it will destroy the top layers and often the lower layers of the material are still damp.

In short, he went on later to talk about moisture penetration and mould in the insulation.