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Gerry Brownlee: Labour hoodwinked Greens over home insulation

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Charles Chauvel: When will the Minister's new-found enthusiasm for energy efficiency translate into support for Labour's proposal to better insulate homes across New Zealand, a measure that will not only increase energy efficiency but also improve New Zealanders' health and create much-needed jobs for this country?

Hon GERRY BROWNLEE: This is one of those programmes that never existed. The Labour Government hoodwinked the nation, hoodwinked the Green Party, put together some sort of murky idea, and went out to the voters, and, do members know what? Anybody who wanted to insulate his or her home would have been just like Mother Hubbard and would have got there to find that the cupboard was bare. Those members never funded it.

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