KEVIN Rudd has accepted "ultimate responsibility" for the "deep tragedy" caused by his home insulation scheme.
Queenslanders Matthew Fuller, Rueben Barnes, Mitchell Sweeney, and Marcus Wilson from NSW, lost their lives working under the then-Labor government's $2.8 billion scheme.
The former prime minister has told a royal commission into the program he had to accept the "good and bad" outcomes of his government's policies in 2009 and 2010.
"For those reasons, as I've said repeatedly before, I have accepted ultimate responsibility for what was not just bad, but in this case a deep tragedy, as it affected the lives of the families concerned," he told the commission on Thursday.
During his evidence, Mr Rudd said public servants should have requested more time to address safety concerns.
But none of them can be held personally responsible.
"I cannot point to any of the public servants involved or any of the ministerial or parliamentary colleagues involved and say 'this person is ... a negligent person'," he said.
"The public servants that I have known in this process are of the finest quality."
Mr Rudd said several oversight mechanisms, including appointing Mike Mrdak as coordinator general and senator Mark Arbib as parliamentary secretary, were put in place but it was clear some didn't work.
He said the relatives of the four men who died deserved to know what processes failed them.
"They have bore the brunt of this in terms of what's happened to them and their loved ones," he said.
"Therefore, it's important to understand which of these levels of implementation and oversight failed to deliver or which number of them."
Former environment minister Peter Garrett has already told the royal commission he bore ultimate responsibility as the minister in charge of the stimulus measure.
Lawyers representing the families of the four young men have begun cross-examining Mr Rudd.
Earlier, the father of a dead insulation installer, Malcolm Sweeney, told the inquiry no family should have to endure what his did, when his son Mitchell was electrocuted laying sheeting in February 2010, at a home in far north Queensland.
The home insulation program was cancelled after Mr Sweeney became the fourth fatality.
The inquiry continues.
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