Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Emergency Management) Share this | Hansard source

Your question acknowledges that the government is providing an additional $150 in energy bill relief, and that extends the existing bill relief arrangements to the end of 2025. And, as I indicated in response to your primary question, that means that every household will receive support to bring down their energy bills. But it is also true, Senator—and we are in agreement here—that there are other opportunities to support households to bring down their bills. Those opportunities include investments in solar at home and in batteries at home. And our energy-saving package, which we've canvassed on a number of occasions in this chamber, is doing exactly this. So, we are delivering energy saving upgrades to around 100,000 social housing residents across the country, with the Social Housing Energy Performance Initiative. We've provided $1 billion to turbocharge lending through the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, working with banks and other lenders to finance energy upgrades for 110,000 homes, and we're funding ARENA to do electrification trials.