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Speaker 1: All right, we've got a slew of new government changes

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Speaker 1: which will hold cowboy builders more responsible for poor quality work.

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Speaker 1: Minister Chris Pink hopes that strengthening the Licensed Building Practices

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Speaker 1: Registrar will ease concerned about plans so let builders self certify.

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Speaker 1: So John Tucky is a professor at the Auckard University

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Speaker 1: of Technology. He specializes in construction management. He's got up

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Speaker 1: early for us.

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Speaker 2: Hello, John morning.

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Speaker 1: This is an international problem that has been discussed for years.

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Speaker 1: Why hasn't it been sorted out before?

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Speaker 2: Because in times when the cost of building goes up,

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Speaker 2: then it just becomes very convenient to go for a

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Speaker 2: chief option. And that chief option is usually somebody who's

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Speaker 2: not going to necessarily do all the detail work that

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Speaker 2: you need. And it looks shaddy accordingly.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's have a look at yesterday's announcement and

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Speaker 1: remember we're kind of first in the world and this

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Speaker 1: sort of thing. Is it a step in the right

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Speaker 1: direction or is it window dressing?

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Speaker 2: No, just step in the right direction. I mean, if

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Speaker 2: we're going to go down the road of self certification

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Speaker 2: for building works, which is perfectly reasonable, it's you know,

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Speaker 2: we we we assume a car is built correctly as

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Speaker 2: a for instance, you know we don't get a certification

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Speaker 2: an individual.

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Speaker 1: You know, we need to get a builder in to

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Speaker 1: fix up your phone, and John has fallen off, so

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Speaker 1: we'll leave this at some point.

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