Up until it was closed off through deaths occurring, the federal government spent $2.45million of TAXPAYERS' money on the federally initiated scheme.

Only a political partisan would maintain that the federal government shouldn't be held accountable for safety problems and for obtaining value for money and at the very least for ensuring that its program was not damaging to the very citizens it purported to assist.

The industry warned the Rudd government of the danger of aluminium foil insulation in particular. There is electrical wiring in the roof of homes.

<CEO of Master Electricians Australia Malcolm Richards said the home insulation scheme was rushed from the beginning.

"It was too fast, without adequate safeguards and it encouraged people to cut corners and to lower safety standards in an attempt to gain quick money, " he said.

He said he personally raised safety concerns with federal government ministers at the time.

"I met personally with Peter Garrett a number of times personally to impact on him the importance of improving the safety in the scheme," he said.

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On Thursday afternoon Queensland Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had questions to answer over the deaths of three Queenslanders in the failed program.

"Kevin Rudd took ownership of the scheme under his first prime ministership and the responsibility should lie with him," Mr Bleijie said.

“These tragedies were preventable. In April 2009, Queensland’s Building Services Authority warned the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet about the risks but it never responded."

In April 2010 Mr Rudd publicly apologised to the families of the four men who died.

Mr Bleijie said the federal Labor Government’s rush to conceive and implement the program contributed to a lack of proper safeguards, which in turn contributed to the deaths of three Queensland men>

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