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Speaker 1: The next Heller duple see Allen. Now, New Zealand's fastest

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Speaker 1: growing region has weighed in on the government's building reform.

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Speaker 1: The Selwyn District council sare's any news of speeding up

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Speaker 1: consents is obviously welcome and Selwyn District Council's head of

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Speaker 1: Building is Vanessa Mitchell. Have Vanessa?

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Speaker 2: Hi, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you? So what is it that

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Speaker 1: you like about this?

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Speaker 2: What I like about it is the minister is really

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Speaker 2: engaging with the sector in looking at what can be

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Speaker 2: done to address the pain points. And you guys in place, Sorry.

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Speaker 1: You're feeling the pain points, aren't you.

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Speaker 2: We are failing the pain points. Where As the fastest

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Speaker 2: growing district, we've been under enormous pressure over the past

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Speaker 2: few years and we really see advantages in some of

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Speaker 2: the self certification proposals that have come out. There are

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Speaker 2: key parts of the industry that quite rightly should be

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Speaker 2: able to self certify their own work and that would

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Speaker 2: actually free our inspectors up to focus on our areas

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Speaker 2: and get around more inspections.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are you're given that you are the fastest grug region?

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Speaker 1: Are your inspectors snowed under? At the moment.

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Speaker 2: Actually, at the moment, they're not. We've had quite a

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Speaker 2: quiet period. So at the moment, whilst sometimes they do

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Speaker 2: have to sorry if people do have to wait two

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Speaker 2: to three days foreign inspection, we're not snowed under.

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Speaker 1: Is that that's because of the recession?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: Probably nobody snowed under it at the moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah

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Speaker 1: it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's been a really quiet period. We are

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Speaker 2: expecting though, at the end of this year that it

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Speaker 2: will pick up and preparing for, yes, things to take

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Speaker 2: off again next year with the softoming interest rates, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so good to have them basically doing it themselves.

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Speaker 1: But are you worried at all about the fact that

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Speaker 1: the liability falls off like this idea that they take

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Speaker 1: the take on the liability themselves and bump it up

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Speaker 1: to their insurance companies. Does that worry you or are

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Speaker 1: you just relieved that you guys aren't the ones who

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Speaker 1: are liable.

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Speaker 2: No. I think if if they hold liable for their work,

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Speaker 2: take more care in carrying out their functions. So I

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Speaker 2: think it's a real positive and I think to support that,

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Speaker 2: it's really going to be heavily reliant on the industry

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Speaker 2: bodies to play their part in developing guidelines for their members,

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Speaker 2: monitoring their performance and ensuring they've got those disciplinary processes

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Speaker 2: in place as well.

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Speaker 1: I guess the reason that you because it's commonly said

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Speaker 1: that inspectors are extremely conservative council inspectors, and that would

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Speaker 1: be because you guys are not personally, but you guys

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Speaker 1: are liable, aren't you as the counsel if something goes wrong.

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Speaker 1: Therefore they have to be conservative.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it's fair to say they risk at birth

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Speaker 2: for the fact that joint in several liability settings mean

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Speaker 2: that typically we're the last men standing with the deepest pocket.

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Speaker 1: M okay, So all in all a good thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: Vanessa, thanks very much, appreciate is Venessa Mitchell, Selwyn, District Council,

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