Page 467 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 20 February 2019
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was one of the points of conversation when I was at the building ministers forum in Melbourne just over a week ago.
What has been acknowledged across the jurisdictions is that this is indeed an Australia-wide issue. We are working through a number of things together. A number of those reforms are dependent on national cooperation and therefore the precise timing of those does not—
Mr Coe: On a point of order, Madam Speaker, the question was specifically: why have you not implemented all these reforms as promised by your predecessor? And the reforms that I made mention of in the main question were the 42 regulatory reforms that were due by the end of 2017. I am not talking about the generality but the specific reforms that were promised to be delivered by 31 December 2017.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Coe, resume your seat. Minister, in the time you have left, can you be specific to that point.
MR RAMSAY: Indeed. Thank you, Madam Speaker. A number of the reforms that we are working on in the regulatory reform policy work here are part of that national cooperative work and therefore do not sit simply within the responsibilities of the ACT government. Again, we are committed to working with those.
I note, for the opposition and for members here and the community beyond, that, in relation to a number of the areas that we are working on, the other jurisdictions have noted our leading work specifically in relation to the testing of builders—people who are seeking builders licences. In relation to the phoenix-ing situation that we have here, within the bounds that a state or territory government can operate in, those jurisdictions—(Time expired.)
MR PARTON: Minister, how many more panels have to fall off buildings before this government gets serious about effective reforms in this space?
MR RAMSAY: This government is very serious about the reforms in this space. This is one of the reasons why there is now a specific portfolio responsibility for building quality improvement under the most recent portfolio arrangements. We are continuing to work through all the reforms that are there. We are continuing to work through the regulatory responses that we have.
I note, and I have drawn this to the attention of the Assembly before in previous answers, the work of the regulator—the registrar—and the rapid regulatory response team. This is significant work. I draw to people’s attention the work over the past period from 1 July to 30 December. It demonstrates the government’s seriousness about the ways that we would continue to work in this area.
There have been five notices of intention to issue a rectification order in that period of time; there have been one rectification order and 10 show-cause notices; there have been four controlled activity orders; there have been 34 demerit points; there have been nine directions to undertake building work; and there have been 13 stop work notices.
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