Gembrook electorate
Mr BATTIN (Gembrook) (11:56): (1882) My constituency question is to the Minister for Planning. It is regarding a local constituent of mine who has a house framing business. He has concerns surrounding the new licensing regulations that will be occurring in the building industry. One of those that will be licensed and regulated is the framing industry. We are seeking information surrounding who will be licensed and how the regulations will affect those that make prefabricated frames in a factory and then install that frame on site. Will the people who are on site installing that need to be licensed? Will the people in the factory making it need to also comply and be licensed, or is it just the traditional carpenter who will be making the frame from scratch on site? The reason we are asking this and why the information is so important to not just my constituent but, I know, to the master builders at the Housing Industry Association is that for a lot of their clients there will actually be a competitive advantage for some if you do not have to be licensed when you are prefabricating.