House debates

Thursday, 17 September 2009

Questions without Notice

Nation Building and Jobs Plan

2:45 pm

Photo of Don RandallDon Randall (Canning, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Energy and Resources) Share this | Hansard source

I refer the minister to advice received that a Western Australian installer paid $6,000 for 100 packs of 20 insulation batts last month. This month he paid $5,240 for 50 packs of 10 batts. That is a price hike of four times the cost of the original unit—costs that are being passed on to the Australian taxpayer. Will the minister explain to the house how a quadrupling of the pink batts price represents value for money?

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