Tuesday, 12 November 2024

 Darren CHEESEMAN (South Barwon) (13:47): The South Barwon community has been for the last 10 years a fast-growing community. Fortunately the reality is that between constituents that are hoping to build their homes in South Barwon and their building practitioners the relationships are good and quality products are built for those constituents. Unfortunately on a rare number of occasions – though that rare number of occasions has grown in the last few years – there have been disputes between my constituents and their building practitioners. This has seen those individuals heading off to Domestic Building Dispute Resolution Victoria as a legislative step to help resolve the difficulties between those constituents and their building practitioners. Disappointingly, though, it can take some time for those constituents to get their issues resolved through that mechanism, and if that mechanism does not resolve that dispute between the constituent and the building practitioner then it heads off to VCAT for further delays. This is something that in my seat I would like to see addressed.