A damning review has found the so-called ‘pink batts scheme’ sacrificed safety for speed, for which four young men paid with their lives.

The Royal Commission into the failed scheme has placed the deaths at Labor’s doorstep, saying they were “avoidable”.

The final report says the $2.8 billion program was fundamentally flawed for a variety of reasons.

The Home Insulation Program (HIP) was admirable in its intention; aiming to install subsided ‘pink batt’ insulation into homes to help reduce energy costs from heating and create jobs in the outfitting.

But in action the scheme was full of “unfortunate compromises”, according to commissioner Ian Hanger, QC.

“The reality is that the Australian government conceived of, devised, designed and implemented a program that enabled a very large number of inexperienced workers – often engaged by unscrupulous and avaricious employers or head contractors, who were themselves inexperienced in insulation installation – to undertake potentially dangerous work,” Mr Hanger wrote in his report on the scheme.

The report said that Mark Arbib - a unionist and Federal Employment Participation Minister and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Government Service Delivery at the time – “at all times pushed the commencement date of 1 July, 2009 despite any concerns expressed by others as to whether it was particularly attainable.”

The commission found that public servants Beth Brunoro and Kevin Keeffe were both informed of the “serious risk posed by reflective foil laminate insulation in conjunction with electricity and did nothing to further investigate it. They should have done so.”

The Project Control Group, in charge of regulations around the roll-out of the scheme, was slammed for its “decision to remove the need for installers to achieve the minimum competencies”, which commissioners called “imprudent”.

The review found that the Australian Government at the time made no attempts find out if regulations and the groups that impose them were actually capable of dealing with the risks from the massive scheme.

“The program was hurriedly conceived and hastily implemented. It failed because of the insistence by PM&C of the need for undue speed in its implementation.

“Overall, it was poorly planned and poorly implemented,” the report states.

But Labor - the party some have claimed has blood on its hands for the botched and ultimately deadly stimulus measure - has cast doubt over whether the $20 million royal commission was good value for money.

Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus has told AAP reports that while he hope the families of the four young men can find solace in the report, he does not think it advances the issue much further than past investigations.

"The inquiry, which has cost $20 million of taxpayers’ money, does not seem to have added a great deal to the eight previous inquiries,” Mr Dreyfus said.