Senate debates
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Home Insulation Safety Program; Foil Insulation Safety Program
Order
3:49 pm
Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source
I move:
- That there be laid on the table, no later than noon on Thursday, 25 November 2010:
- (a)
- the full rate of defects discovered under both the Home Insulation Safety Program and the Foil Insulation Safety Program, including:
- (i)
- the number and percentage of roofs found to be unsafe,
- (ii)
- the number and percentage of roofs found to be faulty or substandard,
- (iii)
- the number and percentage of roofs found to be flawed, unsafe or substandard in any way,
- (iv)
- the number and percentage of roofs rectified,
- (v)
- the cost of repairing the faulty, substandard or unsafe insulation, and
- (vi)
- the total amount of money paid by the Australian Government to insulation companies for faulty, substandard, flawed or unsafe insulation; and
- (b)
- information on the asbestos problem discovered under the Home Insulation Program, in particular:
- (i)
- the number of roofs containing asbestos that received insulation,
- (ii)
- any specific warnings of asbestos risk given to installers prior to fitting the insulation, and
- (iii)
- steps being taken to manage the asbestos risk for safety inspectors assessing roofs.
Question agreed to.
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