Page 332 - Week 01 - Thursday, 11 February 2010
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and highly skilled firefighters. They conduct the ACT winter fire safety campaign. They provide me with the information that I then provide to the community on what should be said as part of that campaign. If Mr Hanson has a problem with that then he has a very strange view about how fire safety messages should be formulated.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, a supplementary question?
MR HANSON: Do you take no responsibility for the warnings and the press releases that you release?
MR CORBELL: Mr Hanson obviously missed what I just said. I stand by what I say in my press statements and I stand by the advice I receive from the ACT Fire Brigade. The only person who is criticising the ACT Fire Brigade is Mr Hanson. He is saying that in some way they were negligent in not giving me advice about a particular matter. I reject that. The home winter fire safety message is a message to householders about how they can help prevent fires in their homes—simple things such as making sure that you do not let your clothes dryer get overloaded with lint, because that can cause a fire hazard; simple things such as making sure that you do not overload your power boards with all of the different electrical appliances, because that can cause a fire hazard; simple things such as making sure that you do not leave your cooking unattended on the stove, because that can potentially lead to a fire.
The ACT Fire Brigade runs a home winter safety message every year. I launch it every year and I use the advice the fire experts provide to me in what messages they want to get out every year. If Mr Hanson has a problem with that, I am very happy for him to sit down with the good men and women of the ACT Fire Brigade and have it explained to him.
MR SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne, a supplementary question?
MRS DUNNE: Minister, was the ACT Fire Brigade consulted on issues relating to the fitting of insulation as part of a commonwealth rollout of the program? If so, what advice did they provide to you or other government agencies?
MR CORBELL: Not that I am aware of, Mr Speaker. Not that I am aware of.
MR SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne?
MRS DUNNE: A supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Minister, can you and your cabinet colleagues table any and all documents relating to the commonwealth government’s home insulation program by close of business today, for the scrutiny of the Assembly? If not, why not, and will you particularly table the document that you were reading from with the red margin down the side, which I think is the fair trading report that Mr Coe was referring to earlier in question time?
MR CORBELL: I do not need to table that document, Mr Speaker, because, first of all, clearly, the Liberal Party have one; and, secondly, it is, of course, on the ORS website. But now that Mrs Dunne has raised it, let me draw to Mr Coe’s and the
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