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

I simply make the point that one listens carefully to the questions that are put by the opposition and to the views that are put by the opposition, and when it comes to some members of the opposition—in particular the member for Flinders, who said that this program was falling apart at the seams when we had 290,000 installations—I think it is time to put these questions in context. But we will take seriously the question that the member has put. I will come back to the House. I make this final point. If we are serious about addressing climate change—as we are on this side of the House—then the Energy Efficient Homes Program, which has only 0.3 per cent of actual issues that have been raised on a program that up to this point in time has been phenomenally successful in its deployment, is doing the job that it was required to do.

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