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It's ok to commit fraud and tell everyone on ASF but it's not ok for dodgy installers to rort the Government's Home Insulation Scheme?
I don't get it - aren't you a hypocrite and a thief?
I have decided to deposit the cheque into my CMT, and wait and see if they ask for it back, hoping they continue this slackness..(a high R/R position)
No compassion here for insulation companies, particularly the massive number of "fly by night" companies that have sprung up overnight. I am a building contractor and I am the mug compared to these cowboy insulation installers who are making filthy money for just literally "throwing" insulation into a ceiling space. The sooner they totally can this scheme the better.
I reported the case where dozens of houses with existing roof insulation have had insulation pumped into the roof cavities.
In fact, in my street on some days the air was thick with insulation dust, and I live in a village where every house was efficiently insulated during construction.
The Rudd government is not taking a "dim view" of this. The are taking a dim view of whistle blowers. I was advised that they had the matter in hand, and that "random checks" would uncover any rorts.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of the money allocated under the stimulus package has stimulated corruption to historic proportions. This will always happen when the checks and balances are practically non-existent.
And it is certainly not in the Governments interests to uncover the massive waste and graft occurring in the bats or school building programs. They know about the millions that have disappeared in the aboriginal housing program. Another case of turning a blind eye.
Are you saying there are no ethical insulation companies who have been installing insulation appropriately since long before the government decided to fling our tax dollars around?No compassion here for insulation companies, particularly the massive number of "fly by night" companies that have sprung up overnight. I am a building contractor and I am the mug compared to these cowboy insulation installers who are making filthy money for just literally "throwing" insulation into a ceiling space. The sooner they totally can this scheme the better.
Are you saying there are no ethical insulation companies who have been installing insulation appropriately since long before the government decided to fling our tax dollars around?
My point was that now even those people who would have installed insulation without any funds from the government will be put off using companies who have done nothing wrong, and that's unfair on perfectly legitimate businesses.
Are you saying there are no ethical insulation companies who have been installing insulation appropriately since long before the government decided to fling our tax dollars around?
My point was that now even those people who would have installed insulation without any funds from the government will be put off using companies who have done nothing wrong, and that's unfair on perfectly legitimate businesses.
Or a 50 bil technology infrastructure project without a business case run by Labor cronies - NBN.
Scary!!
Exactly. And they are also claiming that the new arrangement "places control in the hands of the householder".If it is better for the householder to clain the rebate instead of the installer than why was it not structured that way in the first place ?
Government to give installers an extra $10m
AAP
February 20, 2010
THE federal government will spend $10 million to help thousands of workers affected by changes to the bungled home insulation program.
Employment Participation Minister Mark Arbib says the government will help the 6000 workers, who risk losing their jobs, in the interim.
An additional $10 million will provide 2000 jobs training places, on top of the 4000 places announced last year, he said.
This policy on the run stuff reminds me of.... :dimbulb:
If it is better for the householder to clain the rebate instead of the installer than why was it not structured that way in the first place ?
Why do we need states?
Because many states informed the Federal Environment Minister that his program was potentially hazardous?
Indeed!
And conflicting interests and motivation as far as this scheme was concerned.
At the end of the day I'm with those who think the money would have been better spent elsewhere, eg infrastructure or even paying private hospitals to shortern hospital/surgery waiting lists.
PS: Talking about waste of public money, I think this easily eclipses what Anna Bligh wasted on the ditched Traverston Dam.
TAXPAYERS will stump up an estimated $47 million for safety checks on homes fitted with pink batts, adding to the debacle of the Federal Government's insulation scheme.
Embattled Environment Minister Peter Garrett announced today that inspectors would visit 160,000 homes that have had pink batts installed to check that they are safe.
Four deaths and 93 house fires have been linked to the insulation scheme, which was axed on Friday.
Industry insiders estimated each audit would cost at least $300.
The Government is already paying an estimated $19 million to vet homes fitted with foil insulation under the scheme, so the total cost of the audits will amount to more than $60 million.
The cost estimate does not include the cost of fixing dodgy insulation.
I'm not surprised Julia noted Garrot as "quasi hysterical" when shouting and pleading his case on the 7.30 Rep last night. Personally, I was more inclined to think he was almost completely "off his rocker".
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