Question Time Live: 25/02/2010

luke09 says:

02:13pm | 25/02/10

preciouspress, Before 2007 there wasn’t a 3 billion dollar government funded scheme to attract the shonky installers. There has been 93 house fires, 4 deaths, 48,000 electrified roofs and 250,000 homes with faulty insulation in their roofs. All these things happened in less than ten months. And yet no one is responsible for implementing the scheme.

Tim says:

02:19pm | 25/02/10

Links please Luke.

“48 000 Electrified roofs? 250 000 homes with faulty insulation.”

Me make up numbers, that’s unpossible.

luke09 says:

03:14pm | 25/02/10

Tim, You are correct about the 48,000 number, I meant potentially. Quoting what has been said in parliament question time and reported by various media outlets online and in print.  I believe that Peter Garrett announce a hotline number in parliament for those concerned. Safety checks to be carried out as there are potentially 48,000 roofs in question. So far it has been reported 1000 homes are in danger. Overall 250,000 homes are in need of inspection. Type in insulation scheme on ABConline search or research government and politics, there is enough infomation to make up your own conclusion.

thanks for highlighting error.

Terry says:

02:50pm | 25/02/10

Tony Abbott has peaked! Spoken like a true Labor voter! You are so blind you cannot see your chosen party is being led by a phoney - all talk no action - a person only interested in feeding his own ego. My kids and their kids and their kids are going to pay for this - Australia’s worst Prime Minister. Rudd makes Whitlam look like a miser!

Aitch B says:

06:35pm | 25/02/10

@halberstram

And if the Rudd government had put the scheme together with less haste and more thought there would be no need for the tide to turn, would there? Your comment merely confirms that it was a cock up!

Greg says:

07:59pm | 25/02/10

Your joking aren’t you? I just saw Kevin Rudd being interviewed by Kerry O’Brien in relation to insulation and I honestly believe it is the worst interview performance by a current PM. Not only did Kevin Rudd look sick, he also became quite rude and disrespectful. The cracks in his facade are opening up and beginning to look more like an earthquake.

Tim says:

08:10am | 26/02/10

Have a look at this report.
The insulation scheme may have actually reduced the number of fires per installation.
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2010/02/24/did-the-insulation-program-actually-reduce-fire-risk/
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

JR says:

12:57pm | 26/02/10

That article, and specifically the 85 per year figure before 2009, does not state how the fires were linked to the batts. As I understand it the 93 fires from the scheme were linked specifically to poor installation. How many were linked to the product quality of the batts? Poor installation of electrical wiring igniting batts withough fire retardant qualities or other factors opposed to downlights being too close in those 85? Without that information the article doesn’t hold up. Not saying that they weren’t linked to poor installation, however without explicitly stating it I cannot assume it.