Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

I have said consistently I was present in meetings where risks in the Home Insulation Program were discussed. I have said that. But these meetings did not include electrocution or fire. I have said on numerous occasions that we talked about the issues of fraud and the steps that would be put in place by the government to deal with those issues. Minister Garrett and the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, as the line agency responsible, put in place a compliance and audit scheme. We have talked about the audit scheme, we have talked about the letters that were sent to homeowners to ensure work had been undertaken and we have talked about the targeted auditing of the system to inspect work. These were some of the steps that Minister Garrett took from inception and also as the program progressed.