Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

What we should not do is get ahead of the investigations or prejudge in these circumstances. To date, nothing has been proved about the accreditation of the power stations and there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the renewable energy certificate market. The regulator takes the integrity of the renewable energy certificate market very seriously and has strong enforcement powers for matters within his responsibility. The scheme has been highly successful over the last 10 years and during its time it has continued to maintain bipartisan support. However, it is not the regulator's responsibility to enforce state and territory planning legislation. But, as I indicated earlier in my answer to the first supplementary question, it is a matter that is being looked at by the regulator and they do take it very seriously.