Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share 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.

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