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Greg Wallace: Master Plumbers CEO on the Government's new self-certification scheme for building consents · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The government's planning to hand tradees the power to consent
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  Speaker 1: basic housing projects. Businesses with a proven track record, such
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  Speaker 1: as those building hundreds of near identical homes each year,
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  Speaker 1: will be able to access a streamlined consent process. Plumbers
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  Speaker 1: and drain layers will also be able to certify their
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  Speaker 1: own low and general risk work without needing the council
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  Speaker 1: concent or inspection or anything like that, just like electricians
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  Speaker 1: and gas fitters, who can already self certify at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Wallace is the Master Plumber's chief executive. He's with
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  Speaker 1: us live this morning. Greg, Good morning, Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Ryan, great to be on, Thanks for.
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  Speaker 3: Being with me. What types of jobs are we talking
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  Speaker 3: about here?
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  Speaker 2: Look, it's low risk. It's normally your DJ, your Jenny
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  Speaker 2: in or your single level new house build awesome minor
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  Speaker 2: renovations we're talking about, Ryan, We like.
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  Speaker 3: You could if you're putting new to shower and etc.
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  Speaker 3: Does that need to be go through hoops at the moment?
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  Speaker 2: Well, if we if a bomber comes into your house,
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  Speaker 2: Ryan and just moves the bathroom fixes around existing bathroom,
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  Speaker 2: the schedule one, you need no consent for that, so
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  Speaker 2: you can move the toilet, shower base and all around
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  Speaker 2: in different positions, and then the schedule one the Building
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  Speaker 2: Act allows you to do that. If you add one
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  Speaker 2: foot onto your bathroom at home, you then have to
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  Speaker 2: go through a consent and get about the four inspections,
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  Speaker 2: which really does add to the cost and time for construction.
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  Speaker 2: So the whole concept about this is getting more productivity
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  Speaker 2: in the construction industry and lowering costs for consumers.
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  Speaker 3: So those types of renolds would be included here if
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  Speaker 3: you were moving a bathroom or you were making a
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  Speaker 3: bathroom bigger look.
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  Speaker 2: Extensions, when you're adding an on site to bathroom, we
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  Speaker 2: hope they will be included. Those are the details that
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  Speaker 2: the government still has to come through with their consultation,
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  Speaker 2: but we deem that as low risk, absolutely, And it's
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  Speaker 2: a bit like the granny flat Ryan where there's sixty
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  Speaker 2: square meata and obviously they have a bathroom in a
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  Speaker 2: kitchen and they're going to be non consented and non
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  Speaker 2: inspected as well.
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  Speaker 3: True, so it's kind of apples and apples there, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: How much time and or money do you think this
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  Speaker 3: could save us?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the significant delays and consenting and inspections, particularly when
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  Speaker 2: we had an eight year high of the construction sector.
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  Speaker 2: So we're talking you know, consent from million dollar home
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  Speaker 2: can be anything north of ten thousand dollars, But it's
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  Speaker 2: really the productivity goings that we'll get. You can rate
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  Speaker 2: now in clean sand between fifteen and twenty days for
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  Speaker 2: a pre line inspection and sometimes because there's four inspections.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're getting to high levels of productivity that
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  Speaker 2: you're waiting around for a process to happen of red
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  Speaker 2: tape that you've got to trust your trades people to
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  Speaker 2: be able to do it and then back them with
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  Speaker 2: good guarantees and insurance programs.
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  Speaker 3: How do we separate the good eggs from the bad eggs,
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  Speaker 3: the good trades from the bad ones.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's what creditation program that the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 2: and Minister Ping talked about. You'll have to prove your quality.
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  Speaker 2: I mean what I would say is guest that's been
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  Speaker 2: self certified for fourteen years now along with our friends
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  Speaker 2: the electricians, and we just don't have significant issues for
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  Speaker 2: that trade. A guest is ninety nine percent also a
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  Speaker 2: plumber and a dream rayer. So we're hoping that the
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  Speaker 2: quality that the guests for the industry has shown New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand consumers will flow through to plumbing and joy.
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  Speaker 1: Greg.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really hopeful that this will speed up the renners
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  Speaker 3: I want to do in my house. So I'm very
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  Speaker 3: appreciative of you're coming on this morning. Appreciate it, Greg,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thanks Ron. Greg wallis Master Plumber's chief executive.
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  Speaker 3: These changes are as Greg mentioned, They've still got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of hoops to get through, but hopefully they will
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  Speaker 3: be coming into force next year sometime. For more from
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