Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The scheme provides for 27,000 new projects, which is 7,000 renovations/new builds—substantial renovations, which are new builds—and 20,000 new home constructions. It was never the intention of this program to provide subsidy support for small-scale renovations. That was not the purpose. I'll tell you why we weren't going to do that. We weren't going to do that, because of the risk of integrity to the program and a repeat of the insulation batts farce that occurred under the Labor Party, where people were going around, knocking on doors and basically pulling in pink batts and saying they were going to put them in your roof, and pocketing the difference. It was a joke. It was a complete failure—

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