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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Aluminium Composite Cladding

Mr BATTY (Bragg) (14:56): My question is to the Minister for Planning. Has the government determined what buildings are eligible for its recently announced limited loan scheme for the removal of dangerous flammable cladding? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Mr BATTY: The 95-word announcement of this policy on the department's website suggests the scheme is only available for high or extreme risk rated buildings, despite other risk rated buildings also having received demands from council building fire safety committees to remove the dangerous cladding.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Member for Bragg, before I turn to the minister I might observe that by suggesting a particular interpretation to a series of words on a website, we again confront the difficulty that arises in relation to the standing orders when we have in mind the introduction of facts. To suggest something of course invites an argument or opinion. I'm going to allow the question on this occasion.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Trade and Investment, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Planning) (14:57): For the purposes of clarity, I inform the member that loans will be automatically eligible for those in the extreme and high-risk category, and on a case-by-case basis in the moderate category.

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