Page 146 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 13 February 2019
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MS LEE: Minister, does the number that you are thinking about include the students who are witnesses to bullying and violence; if not, can you provide that number to the Assembly?
MS BERRY: If that is collected centrally and it is available, I am happy to provide it to the Assembly. Students get advice on a whole range of things, whether that is bullying or issues that are going on in the school or at home. As to how that is collated, I will have to check whether that information is available and whether it is broken down into those kinds of categories.
Building—quality
MS CODY: My question is to the Minister for Building Quality Improvement. Can the minister update the Assembly on the progress of building quality reforms in the ACT?
MR RAMSAY: I thank Ms Cody for the question. The government has certainly been getting on with the job of delivering on our commitments. Our regulatory and policy officers have been working hard to upload a series of building policy reforms. Shortly we will begin testing for those people who are seeking A or B class licences. We will also start testing those who are renewing their licences and who have a demonstrated history of non-compliance, as well as a random selection of those who are renewing their licence.
We are doing this because we want to make sure that our builders have the required knowledge that we want them to have to work in the industry. We want to ensure that they have the ability to properly read and interpret building plans and how to apply the building code to those plans. We want to ensure that they understand their various roles and their responsibilities when they are a licensed builder and that they are keeping their knowledge up to date.
We are also preparing to roll out other policies to increase the level of design documentation that is needed to get a building approval, new codes of practice for those in the industry and other changes to ensure that we have a high quality building industry here in the territory, and I look forward to making further announcements on those in the coming days and weeks.
MS CODY: Can the minister advise the Assembly of the role of the Access Canberra rapid regulatory response team and how they are helping to address building quality issues in Canberra?
MR RAMSAY: I thank Ms Cody for the supplementary question. Since the establishment of the rapid regulatory response team in May last year, we have been working hard to ensure that building complaints are dealt with as quickly as possible. The team consists of people with skills in investigations as well as skills in the technical aspects of building and planning.
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