Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Minister Arbib, given Minister Garrett failed to read a report for some 10 months and you claim to have attended weekly briefings where issues of risk were never raised, and given the tragic loss of four lives, the damage to nearly 100 homes from fire and the risk now faced by tens of thousands of homeowners, will you concede that the actions taken by both you and Minister Garrett on the implementation of this scheme were manifestly inadequate?