Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I must admit to the member for Chifley that I did not hear that part of his question, because I was conferring with my advisers.

Common sense suggests to me that the Commonwealth's area of responsibility, being the program, was quite properly the subject of our internal investigation. The Minister for Employment will make a decision about whether that will be made public at the appropriate time. I am confident that she will offer the member for Chifley a briefing on that matter at the appropriate time, but I understand it has only just been received by the Minister for Employment, so she probably has not formed a view about that at this stage.

In terms of the investigation into the accident itself, it is the jurisdiction of the state—the WorkCover Queensland commission or authority. They may well release their findings—in fact, they usually do in these sorts of situations where there has been a workplace accident. They will do that, I assume, when they finish their investigation and make that decision.

In terms of the Home Insulation Program and the royal commission into those matters, I am simply not aware of whether they form the basis of the program investigation. I am sure that the Minister for Employment will correspond separately with the member for Chifley on that matter as is appropriate. I do not have the answer to that in my briefings, so I will let her deal directly with you.

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